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Mystery "Warm Blob" In the Pacific Ocean Could Be Causing California's Drought
Mr D from 63 writes A mysterious "warm blob" in the Pacific Ocean could be the reason why US West coast states like California are experiencing their worst ever drought, a new study says. From the article: "Nick Bond, a climate scientist at the Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean at the University of Washington, began watching the blob a year and a half ago. 'In the fall of 2013 and early 2014, we started to notice a big, almost circular mass of water that just didn't cool off as much as it usually did, so by spring of 2014 it was warmer than we had ever seen it for that time of year,' Bond said in a news release about the studies appearing in Geophysical Research Letters."
We prefer to called: "Coolness challenged entities"
You insensitive clod.
While Republican lawmakers state in a press conference that warm blobs cannot exist, as proven by the fact that there are sometimes cold blobs in the ocean as well.
It's Kim Dotcom.
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Perhaps the water is being insulated by the eddy of plastic trash in the central Pacific?