Sea Surface Temperature

[orthoclad]

Lots of global heating news. Sidewalks in Phoenix hitting 160F and causing people contact burns. Last week was the globally hottest week in history, and the coming week will be hotter. Death Valley is positioned to record the highest surface temperature ever reliably recorded.
https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/hottest-day-of-the-year-2023-earth-b2371394.html

NOAA posts a map of sea surface temperatures.

Go to the NOAA site. (I have to break the link into 2 parts to keep it from posting as an image; copy, paste and remove the spaces after www )
https://www .ospo.noaa.gov/data/sst/contour/contour.small.gif

Click on the Persian Gulf. Water there is close to 100F. That's incredible.

Click on the Gulf/Caribbean area. Waters around and near Cuba and in Florida Bay are in the 90s. There's an eddy of hotter water in the middle of the Gulf. All this hot water is major storm fuel. El Niño works against major hurricanes, but all that hot water is worrisome.

It's only going to get worse. Heat kills.

[littlemissmartypants]

1. OT: I see a rainbow flag.

The Heat Will Kill You First' is a chilling book -- and a warning Author Jeff Goodell...

https://www.democraticunderground.com/1016356985

❤️

[Brenda]

2. 100F, wow!

I saw the ocean temp near Everglades National Park, FL was 98 the other day. Wildlife cannot live in that.

[Duppers]

3. Humans have caused this.

The planet cannot support this many of us.

[orthoclad]

4. Certainly not this many rich people,

jet-setting, bloatmobiling, yachting, and drilling, baby, drilling.

OT: In The Ugly American, the ugly character was the good guy. He learned local customs and respected people, but he was ugly. The "pretty" Americans were the problems.