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So what you're saying, is that even with a weaker el nino, we still have higher global average temps? And this is somehow "sensationalized?"

• sublinear 3y ago
  Depends on how you define an "average" and what temperature you're measuring. The oceans are directly affected by global warming. The oceans are like a big thermal battery. The atmosphere and resulting weather are indirectly affected. What determines the weather are the global jetstreams. Global warming causes more turbulence in them, but the heat being experienced is not literally from global warming. It could be just as hot or cold or moreso in the past, and it definitely has been. You cannot go outside and feel global warming. That's a really dumb myth and my entire point. Every time it's hot it's an opportunity for the media to rally all the idiots together and wheel out the same tired propaganda and so many people believe it every time. It's very important to realize that all those graphs that show increasing temperatures are talking about the ocean.
  • solumunus 3y ago
    What about the ones I regularly see posted here showing the ocean warming at a worrying pace?
    • THENATHE 3y ago
      That still doesn’t contribute to the whole planet getting 10 degrees hotter in one year. The oceans heating up means that over the next 30+ years we see that kind of change maybe, honestly more like 80-120 years. Climate change is real, but this heat wave has nothing to do with it