Climatologists: By 2100, the Earth Will Have an Entirely Different Ocean

merbs writes: The ocean is in the midst of radical, manmade change. It can seem kind of crazy that one of the most immense properties on Earth—the ocean washes over 71 percent of the planet—could be completely transformed by a swarm of comparatively tiny, fleshy mammals. But humans are indeed remaking the ocean, in almost every conceivable way. The ocean we know today—that billions swim, fish, float, and surf in—that vast planetary body of water will be of an entirely different character by the end of the century: hotter, higher, trashier, and more acidic.

Comments

Re:Don't worry!

[MightyMartian]

The oceans are already measurably warmer and more acidic, you fucking idiot.

Re:They Lie

[serviscope_minor]

I don't believe you.

Then you're an idiot.

In the 70's it was going to be an ice age,

Nope, never happened. Oooh I see you're confusing journalists in the popular press floundering around with actual science. Do you do that with computer stuff too, or do you only level your skepticism on things you truly don't understand?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

Re:They Lie

[KeensMustard]

I don't believe you.

Your beliefs make no difference to reality. Are you hoping to fairy wish climate change away? - "timmy you can do it! you just have to believe!"

In the 70's it was going to be an ice age, now it is going to be a heat wave.

In the 1990's climate deniers told us that the climate wasn't warming.

They were wrong.

Then they told us the warming was because of the sun.

They were wrong.

Then they told us the warming was due to gravitational lensing.

They were wrong.

Then they told us the warming was due to- hey look over there! It's a vast green conspiracy!

They were wrong.

Then they told us the slight dip in the rate of warming was magically a reset of the warming and that this disproved the laws of thermodynamics and model mumble mumble magic happens! Unicorns and Fairies!

They were wrong.

I tell you this in case you feel like comparing your credibility with the credibility of the science again.

Is the data real or manipulated?

I once had a guy here claim that the measured rate of warming was insignificant and posted a link to woodfortrees to prove it. I went and looked. It turns out, he'd carefully selected a narrow band of measures along the equator (where the warming is the least) and excluded the temperate and polar zones to reduce the warming measures. In short he lied.

I pointed this out to him, and he disappeared. Yet I have seen, several times, the same link re-appear.

So: who is manipulating data?

Re:Slashdot Paradox

[Sardaukar86]

There have been histrionic predictions about disappearing glaciers, extinct polar bears, 50cm+ rising seas, 50 million climate refugees, catastrophic hurricane seasons, ice-free arctic, all which should have come to pass by now.

I agree, 'crying wolf' is a near-perfect way to ruin one's credibility.

Hyperbole sells movies, not science. However, there's precious little hyperbole coming from the scientists themselves.

The predictions you mention really are coming to pass. Jellies have hit their stride, they're filling the oceans. Polar bears really are dying out. Local weather systems really are making landfall with more energy than they used to. Arctic ice really is disappearing very quickly.

I live in New Zealand. Like many tourists to our little country, I to have naughtily stood upon the tongue of the Franz Josef glacier. I did this in 2000 and it looks quite different only fifteen years later, judging by this Herald article.

This is reality. That fact that it is not happening nearly as fast as we were led to believe by our hyperbolous media and silly disaster movies like '2012' should come as a surprise to absolutely no-one.