Climate Change Has Doubled the Frequency of Ocean Heatwaves (nature.com)

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Nature: Scientists analyzed satellite-based measurements of sea surface temperature from 1982 to 2016 and found that the frequency of marine heatwaves had doubled. These extreme heat events in the ocean's surface waters can last from days to months and can occur across thousands of kilometers. If average global temperatures increase to 3.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels by the end of the century, as researchers currently project, the frequency of ocean heatwaves could increase by a factor of 41. In other words, a one-in-one-hundred-day event at pre-industrial levels of warming could become a one-in-three-day event. The study has been published in the journal Nature.

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Problem solved! Move along, nothing to see.

[blindseer]

I have been informed by a dozen anonymous cowards in this thread, or maybe the same one posting multiple times, that wind and solar are now cheaper than coal and nuclear. Therefore we have solved the problem of global warming. Even greedy bastards that can't be bothered to "think of the children" will be investing in windmills and buying electric cars, because they are now cheaper than everything else.

Nothing to see, move along.

Here's something that bothers me though. China and a handful of other nations have a near monopoly on the materials needed to make wind and solar power cheap. It would be quite embarrassing for a first world nation to abandon nuclear power only to see the price of energy spike because the supply of new wind and solar, and the spare parts to keep current systems running, saw a shortage over a tariff war.

Nuclear power is domestic power. That is unless these first world nations have domestic sources of rare earth metals for wind turbines, and PV fabrication plants for solar collectors.