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Ocean heat around Florida is ‘unprecedented,’ and scientists are warning of major impacts

www.cnn.com Ocean heat around Florida is 'unprecedented,' and scientists are warning of major impacts | CNN

A sudden marine heat wave off the coast of Florida has surprised scientists and sent water temperatures soaring to unprecedented highs, threatening one of the most severe coral bleaching events the state has ever seen.

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Wait, is this what DeSantis meant when he said “Florida is where woke goes to die”?
- You awake in Florida? You die.
Isn't this a big deal for hurricanes also?
- Hence all of the home owners insurance providers exiting Florida.
  
  DeSantis and Scott's governorships have really failed to prepare this state for what's coming, but hey, what do you expect from a bunch of corrupt pieces of shit like them and the rest of the Florida GOP?
  
  Home insurance is going to change in a crazy way over the next decade.
- Sea surface temperatures are linked to more intense storms. But there’s a ton of factors that affect hurricane strength. Wind shear is probably one of the biggest.
  
  That said, given the right conditions and all things else being conducive to intensification, I would think higher SSTs would strongly encourage more rapid and higher intensification.
  
  You're right about this. There's also been studies done recently that suggest that hurricanes have been intensifying generally in recent years and there will most likely be a continued trend so total frequency will go down but more intense hurricanes will become more common.
Really interested in how he will deal with the rising oceans and climate change and how he will blame it on the gays or something
- My money is that he continues to just not acknowledge it while it continues to get worse
  
  Permanently Deleted
  
  He'll blame Biden somehow.
- It's all the hot steamy sex that causes those hurricanes, obviously.
- He'll be gone before it matters enough to regular voters
Dumb state full of dumb people. Going to learn about climate change when every beach in the state is buried under 25 feet of seaweed for the next 1,000 years.
The water around the Keys is 90-92 degrees currently. I don't know much about how ocean temps affect sea life but that seems very high.
- Boiled shrimp, crabs, and lobster are good.
So how do we get giant heat sinks in the water and harness the energy?
- Heat's too diffuse to be useful. Entropy 🙃
  
  Seriously I'm dumb but wouldn't it just be transfer of heat? I was joking btw but now I'm invested lol.
I’m not denying climate change. I was recently in Florida and it is, indeed, hot af.

The article is saying that there’s evidence that the heat is causing coral to die. They really don’t know the extent of the impact.

Vague article titles are just a pet peeve of mine. This whole article could have been summed up in less than 3 sentences.

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That would mean “significant and severe” bleaching will start in the next week and the coral could start to die altogether within a month, he said.

“It still remains to be seen if this event is going to be more or less severe than previous events,” Manzello said. “However, all of the evidence right now is pointing to the fact that it’s going to be one of the more severe events we’ve seen.”
- Kinda the nature of climate science/news though. Too many variables to report in absolutes; and historically these kinds of articles also err on the more conservative side of any kind of projections so as to not seem alarmist, so I suspect that's a big factor in the "well, it could be super horrible, but y'know maybe we forgot to carry a 1 or something in our math and it's actually going to be only kind of horrible... time will tell!" -kinda language. Gotta leave some wiggle room for people to be carry that wishful optimism.
- I mean, the surface temperature at the Keys is 92 degrees. Thats like bathtub temperatures.
and here we've been having the coolest summer of the century

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