Ocean temperatures have soared five degrees above normal since early July. This warming has been ignited by an El Nino weather pattern that’s collided with human-caused climate change.

“It’s bonkers. I don’t know how else to put it,” said Ben Kirtman, an atmospheric scientist with the University of Miami Rosenstiel School. “Normally when you break records, you break records by a tenth of a degree, maybe a quarter of a degree. … Here, we’re breaking it by five degrees.”

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      1 year ago

      “We gotta cool the oceans down, that’s why I support nuking them!”

      -Coming soon from the party that suggested nuking hurricanes

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    Getting on the climate change denial train is always a bad idea; but for a whole state that’s narrowly above sea level, routinely hit with hurricanes, and relies on tourism dollars? Stupid af.

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    I’m trying to be empathetic because I know there are vulnerable people who live in FL, but if there’s any place that deserves to find out after a lot of fucking around, it’s Florida.