However, that was just global warming lite.
The true harm posed by global warming is invisible. 90% of the heat produced by the world is stored in the seas, and this heat is beginning to have a more ferocious effect on the climate system. Global ocean temperatures have been steadily rising since 1958, and after 1990, this trend increased quickly. It's clear by this point that climate change took off during the last decade of the 20th century and is still ascending. Another Year of Record Heat for the Oceans, Liming Cheng et al., Atmospheric Sciences, d/d January 10, 2023: The inexorable rise in ocean temperatures is the unavoidable result of Earth's energy imbalance, which is principally linked to rising concentrations of greenhouse gases. The unavoidable rise in ocean temperatures is a result of the planet's energy imbalance, which is principally brought on by rising greenhouse gas concentrations. Annual records are still being broken with every new year since the tendency is so strong and consistent.
The consequences are enormous, but they aren't realized until it's too late, which is the special quality of invasiveness. Leaders of the nation and the general people do not understand this secret beast. It is after all invisible. The fact that the world's nation/states have not taken aggressive, coordinated action to stop the rapid rises in CO2 and other greenhouse gases may be explained by that fact alone. Neither have they felt adequate public pressure nor fully understood the risk. This thus helps to explain, in part, the costly sequence of empty yearly UN Conferences of the Parties CoPs with essentially zero net results after three decades of wrangling over the same issue repeatedly. This is because so much of it is invisibly concealed in the sea. Commonly, a greenhouse Despite 30,000–40,000 professionals gathering annually to debate the issue of too much CO2, gases continue to reach new milestones.
A panic-stricken world that would probably burn up over time, as if it were an emerging Venus with a 95% CO2 atmosphere and temperatures hot enough to melt metal, would result if global warming could be reversed and the oceans replaced the atmosphere with its heat content released for everyone to see, feel, and experience. For instance, without the numerous ecological services the twilight zone (ocean) offers, CO2 levels in the atmosphere "would soar by approximately 50%," according to Ken Bessemer, a biochemist at the famed Woods Hole Institute in Massachusetts. Already, the ocean holds 20 times more carbon than all plants and soil put together, and 50 times more than the atmosphere.
In the meantime, Argo, a multinational cooperation of various countries, maintains a network of over 4000 autonomous ocean floats (Argos), each of which profiles vertically from 2000 m once every 10 days to collect data on salinity and temperatures. With almost one float every 3-degree box across the whole world's ocean when it is deeper than 2000 meters, the data from Argo provide previously unheard-of spatial coverage of the oceans.
What are the effects of too much heat in the oceans, then?
First off, the year 2022 experienced the most erratic weather patterns in living memory, with enormous floods, brutal droughts, and dwindling reservoirs worldwide due to the oceans' overheating response. Studies unequivocally demonstrate that the world's oceans have the greatest influence on weather worldwide. As ocean temperatures rise, extreme weather phenomena such as powerful atmospheric rivers and violent hurricanes are amplified. One such atmospheric river recently targeted Northern California and came dangerously close to slipping into the ocean.
The international team of scientists... concluded: 'The Earth's energy and water cycles have been profoundly altered due to the emission of greenhouse gases by human activities, driving pervasive changes in Earth's climate system," according to an article in The Guardian that discussed the Cheng study.
First off, the year 2022 experienced the most erratic weather patterns in living memory, with enormous floods, brutal droughts, and dwindling reservoirs worldwide due to the oceans' overheating response. Studies unequivocally demonstrate that the world's oceans have the greatest influence on weather worldwide. As ocean temperatures rise, extreme weather phenomena such as powerful atmospheric rivers and violent hurricanes are amplified. One such atmospheric river recently targeted Northern California and came dangerously close to slipping into the ocean.
"The international team of scientists... concluded: 'The Earth's energy and water cycles have been profoundly altered due to the emission of greenhouse gases by human activities, driving pervasive changes in Earth's climate system, according to an article in The Guardian that discussed the Cheng study.
'Measuring the seas is the most accurate approach to determine how out of balance our planet is,' said Prof. John Abraham of the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and a member of the study team. Because of the warming waters, we are experiencing more extreme weather, which has serious repercussions everywhere in the world, according to Ibid. Another significant study asserts that it is highly likely that the oceans are already at their highest temperature in over 1,000 years and are heating up more quickly than at any time in the previous 2,000 years. Furthermore, the future for global warming is awful! The main greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, were at their highest atmospheric concentrations ever as of October 2022, according to a recent report from the World Meteorological Organization. Alarmingly, The atmospheric concentration of the primary greenhouse gases, carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, hit all-time highs as of October 2022, according to a new report from the World Meteorological Organization. Methane alarmingly showed the largest year-over-year increase, which is significant because it is a potent global warming stimulant. Methane emissions have increased dramatically and are now +262% higher than pre-industrial levels. As of October 2022, levels of the gases carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide hit record highs. Methane alarmingly showed the largest year-over-year increase, which is significant because it is a potent global warming stimulant. Methane emissions have increased dramatically and are now +262% higher than pre-industrial levels.
Scientists assert that we urgently need to reform our industrial, energy, transportation, and entire way of life since there isn't much time left to stop the rumbling freight train that is approaching that shining light at the end of the tunnel, presuming it is even possible to do so. The UN has been admonishing nations that even with their present emission pledges—which few, if any, seem to honor—doing so will cause a catastrophic breakdown of the climate system. Furthermore, it seems to have already begun in earnest, based on the uncontrollable climatic system of 2022–2033. So forget about all the false guarantees of net-zero by blah blah blah," and fasten your seatbelt! However, a global strategy to counter the greatest threat should be implemented, It seems to have begun in earnest, already. So put all those false net-zero by blah blah blah" claims to rest and buckle up! Still, a global strategy to deal with humanity's greatest threat ever is in the works. However, it is understandable that it is almost impossible to convey to the public and to national leaders the seriousness of the issue as seen by climate scientists. Many of them are quite terrified. It seems to have begun in earnest already. So put all those false "net-zero by blah blah blah" claims to rest and buckle up! Still, a global strategy to deal with humanity's greatest threat ever is in the works. However, it is understandable that it is almost impossible to convey to the public and to national leaders the seriousness of the issue as seen by climate scientists. Many of them are quite terrified.
Even more concerning is the likelihood that a cooling trend in the equatorial Pacific Ocean (which helped to cool the hottest year in 2022, hmm, didn't help much), will end when the waters of the equatorial Pacific turn much warmer with significant global impact. This might cause a super cycle of already bizarre weather patterns to become even more bizarre, with periods of intense drought being followed by floods the size of Noah's Ark, hurricanes that destroy cities, and who knows what else. Because of the ongoing drive to produce more, all of this is more likely than ever before.
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