Ocean temperatures are off the charts

Strangely the LA Times version[0] does link to the chart: https://twitter.com/EliotJacobson/status/1667571728984461312

[0] https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-06-13/rising-t...

Fact is that we're way too optimistic as a species and we're unable to accept that anything could happen that might be worse than what we've seen in our lifetimes. See Fukushima and the flood walls. For some reason being proactive is seen as wasteful and pointless, even though it's often far cheaper and easier than dealing with the consequences of not doing anything.

People complain about how expensive doing anything about climate change is and that it's a waste of money, conveniently ignoring the order of magnitude increase of cost we're facing if we don't do it.

One of the most frustrating things is how the group advocating inaction was successfully able to spread the view that climate scientists and the IPCC were being alarmist.

In truth they were being conservative and overly cautious.

Makes me think of that comic from ten or fifteen years back, "what if it's a big hoax and we create a better world for nothing?"

Speaking as someone who wrote some internet articles on the side years ago... They probably have no choice. Legit news outlets either SEO optimize where they can and scrape by, or they die.

FTA, they are literally off the charts:

Ocean temperatures are so anomalously high that Eliot Jacobson, a retired mathematics professor who created the graph using data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, had to "increase the upper bound on the y-axis," he said.