[Coral-List] oceans hotter: is El Nino coming?

[Douglas Fenner]

The ocean is hotter than ever: what happens next?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01573-1?WT.ec_id=NATURE-202305&sap-outbound-id=436BF3A37E3E169BD4018429BF1B4DDE83E52F1A

60% chance of El Nino developing between May and July, up to 80% chance by
October.

The ocean absorbs 90% of the extra heat, but since water takes vastly more
heat to warm (high heat capacity), it warms less that surface air

The average ocean surface temperature now is probably the highest in
100,000 years.

open-access

Cheers, Doug

-- 
Douglas Fenner
Lynker Technologies, LLC, Contractor
NOAA Fisheries Service
Pacific Islands Regional Office
Honolulu
and:
Coral Reef Consulting
PO Box 997390
Pago Pago, American Samoa 96799-6298  USA

Degrowth can work - here's how science can help
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-04412-x

CoP 27, CoP 17, the party's over https://www.petersalebooks.com/?p=3324

Fixing methane leaks is a fast and vast help for climate change, and pays
for itself.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/why-fixing-methane-leaks-oil-132702814.html