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The Highwire with Del Bigtree

TURNING DOWN THE HEAT ON THE BOILING OCEAN NARRATIVE

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

The Highwire with Del Bigtree

Health & Fitness, News, Society & Culture

4.93.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 April 2024

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

For the past year, the media’s go-to climate change fear play has been boiling oceans. Yet simple research shows the inaccuracy of their reporting as many are looking past global warming to solar cycles pointing to possible cooling events.

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0:00.0

People may have noticed over the last year a new talking point towards the net zero push or the climate conversation

0:07.6

and it looks like this if you haven't seen it take a look.

0:10.0

A dire warning about the state of the world's air and oceans.

0:15.0

The ocean is rapidly heating up, hitting record-breaking levels.

0:18.5

Global sea and air temperatures are at record highs for this time of year.

0:23.0

Scientists say the average surface temperature of the world's oceans

0:26.4

has surpassed the previous record set in 2016.

0:30.0

The world's warming waters are a dangerous trend, say experts. The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration,

0:37.4

better known as NOAA reported this week

0:39.7

that ocean surface temperatures spiked in April and May to the highest levels recorded since the 1950s.

0:46.5

Ocean temperatures are warming at an unprecedented rate with 40% of global oceans currently experiencing a heat wave.

0:53.0

Those warm waters could cause hurricanes to strengthen more rapidly than normal.

0:58.0

You're more prone to get a rapid intensification, you know,

1:01.0

where hurricanes can go from some intensity and very quickly become a lot stronger.

1:06.0

The climate scientists are saying you can't even say new normal because it will keep ramping up if you can imagine that.

1:12.0

Instead it's just going to get worse and worse so the sooner we get to work the better

1:18.1

Bill and I the science guy

1:20.7

Love him got tootta love him.

1:23.0

So he comes up in a lot of these conversations, doesn't he?

1:25.0

So it's going to, as you're saying there, it's going to get worse and worse and worse until we act.

1:29.0

So again, another climate issue, boiling oceans is our fault.

1:32.6

And so these are the headlines too.

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