This isn’t anything new or unheard of though in the sense that anyone who has been listening to climate scientists was expecting this and much more.
No, this is completely unheard of in forecasting, the global sea surface temperatures since march 2023 are totally unheard of.
This year, 2024, will be the year a good chunk of the world comes to terms with how brutally climate change is already here. If this swing of sea surface temperature is indicative of a new paradigm and not a temporary anomaly the scale in terms of raw energy of this change will undoubtedly lead to climate scientists and geologists in retrospect placing the true beginning of the Anthropocene proper in march 2023.
Sorry not trying to be difficult, I just want to emphasize climate scientists dont know why sea surfaces are so incredibly high right now, it is very possible some hidden breaking point in the convection of the heat transfer going on in the worlds oceans has switched to a less efficient heat sink system and are now directly heating heating up more rather than just moving the heat. Climate scientists don’t know. Sure taking sulphur out of shipping fuels definitely had someeee impact, but the energy imbalance right now is titanic and I don’t think shipping fuel sulfurs account for it all.
The headline is really burying the lead here and it actually pisses me off quite a bit.
Hurricane forecasting models that have been running for years and have been established to at least be moderately predictive are unanimously predicting the worst hurricane season EVER predicted by computer models.
The temperatures west of Africa in the Atlantic where hurricanes are born and grow are already at levels that the Atlantic only reaches in mid July even in warmer years. This should be incredibly concerning to everybody on the east coast+gulf coast of the US and living in the Caribbean.
All of the hurricane forecasters I have seen are shocked. All of the parameters are in place for a perfect storm of a horrific hurricane season.
At this point all we can do is cross our fingers and hope most of the bad hurricanes miss landfall and fly out into the Atlantic but we are gambling with money we don’t have here.
Global sea surface temperatures, the yellow line is 2023, temperatures have been smashing records going back 30 years or so every single day for all of 2023 (starting in March) up until present day.
Temps look like they are going down, but even if this current downward trend continues an absolutely devastating amount of heat is being poured into the oceans. The next couple of weeks will tell us if this was some kind of weird super el nino we are coming out of and that is where the heating was coming from or whether we have entered a new climate paradigm and if that doesn’t scare you that climate scientists can’t tell yet you are frankly an idiot.
All the alarms are blaring, this is giving lots of indications we are on a far worse and faster timeline than the current mainstream media/politics narrative is acknowledging (and by extension what climate scientists can actually say in public without getting shamed or fired).
Next you are going to tell me Hamas is a pathetic rag tag group of resistance fighters that could never even hope of fighting a “war” against Israel (like how, would they beat fighter jets and some of the most advanced main battle tanks in the world with some assault rifles, rpgs and maybeeeee some IEDs?).
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It would be one thing if the resistance fighters had any amount of territory to hide in, but Gaza is essentially an open air prison that takes an f16 all of probably a minute and a half to fly over on afterburners, there is simply no way for Hamas to really even take the first step of fighting a traditional war with Israel since one must concentrate their troops to win a traditional war, and Hamas doing so in any numbers would lead to near instant and complete obliteration by the hands of Israel fighter bombers, artillery, or troops backed by main battle tanks.
This is not a war, this is a genocide of the Palestinian people.
Errrr…. you realize the US is one of richest nations that has ever existed and yet ~95% of people living in it are one or two crises away from collapsing?
There are homeless everywhere and if anything centrist democrats are giddy to criminalize the state of being without a home. Biden was an instrumental part of the crime bills that came to define some of the most vivid failures of neoliberalism. Kamala Harris has a similar history. Have these politicians evolved and changed? Yes of course but that isn’t my point.
My point is that is it really disputable at this point that modern centrist leftwing political groups in the US, UK and similar political environments are as associated with austerity policies as rightwing politicians? There are degrees of difference, but it is a contrast of magnitude not of ethics of attitude.
I take this as a valid critique of myself and the way I write sentences like contestants on those shopping blitz game shows where you get a limited time but you can keep whatever fits in your cart if you make it back to the finish line in time.
The metaphor is imperfect because I (clearly) don’t have a timer.
yawn the economics don’t matter, this about beginning the process of completing commodifying CGI work so conceptually anybody doing the labor of animation can constantly have the threat of AI replacing held over them.
In this sense, as I have said many times before, it doesn’t matter if AI works well in this capacity or not, it only matters that AI facilitates a permanent reduction in the leverage animators and computer graphics artists have to fight for a decent quality of life and living wage.
The neoliberal colonialist stranglehold world order is collapsing so fast it is making my head spin.
The centrist, austerity minded democrats who have enjoyed power in the US for the last couple of decades are absolutely self immolating, they look like utter absolute murderous clowns when they claim with a straight face that the Palestinian Genocide is not a Genocide.
Make no mistake this is a turning point, no matter what happens in this election, this kind of democrat who supports whatever Israel does because… well because… to the point of pretending an ongoing genocide being done with your weapons and fighter jets doesn’t exist is toast.
No matter what happens in this election, the kind of mainstream media that is towing the line Israel by giving them complete diplomatic and narrative immunity towards being the bad guys when Israel is committing a genocide against the Palestinians every day as we speak… it is detonating the strangehold of conservative, ideologically bereft centrist who have been trying to manage the global status quo without actually conceding to progressive changes to it.
The critical change here is that milquetoast democrats used to be globally regarded as at least somewhat rationale and ethically minded compared to the dumpster that is american conservatism, but this genocide is thoroughly proving to the world that most centrist democrats are just the good cop to the bad cop republicans, and if push comes to shove a good cop has no problem filling in for the role of bad cop when they perceive it will retain their violent power.
I really don’t think the rich and powerful who controlling basically everything in the US have any idea how deep a majority of US citizen’s revulsion over the pointlessness of the Iraq war has burrowed into their psyche. They really don’t get it, they think we are just going to roll over and accept US imperialism/military industrial complex as “just the way it is honey” like our parents did but we are FAR stronger and more politically aware than our parents were and FARRRRRRR more jaded in a way that makes us suspect of the basic legitimacy of the military industrial complex at every turn we have to interact with it.