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It wasn't that long ago. Maybe someone stuck a thermometer down there.
by f33d5173 4mo ago
It wasn't that long ago. Maybe someone stuck a thermometer down there.
- AnimalMuppet 4mo agoOver enough of the Pacific to be able to say this with confidence? They might have... but I doubt it.
- ssl-3 4mo agoOceanic science has has been happening for quite a long time. You may wish to have a look at this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_and_American_voyages_of_scientific_exploration https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_and_American_voyages_...
- AnimalMuppet 4mo agocntrl-f temperature: zero matches. cntrl-f therm: zero matches. I know voyages have been done for a long time. There weren't many undiscovered islands by then. There were a bunch of species found (my ancestor did a fair amount of that). But how good was the temperature map? How do they know what the water temperature was, across the whole Pacific, in 1877? At what resolution do they know it? dlcarrier's answer (at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48202959) says that they are using the data that they do have to derive the temperature, with "more precision than accuracy". They don't know that accurately, and what they do know, they don't know from "someone sticking a thermometer down there".
- breakyerself 4mo agohttps://www.whoi.edu/ocean-learning-hub/ocean-topics/climate-weather/paleoclimatology https://www.whoi.edu/ocean-learning-hub/ocean-topics/climate...