https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/
"“What people often don’t grasp is that it’s taken 100 years to get the oceans that warm at depth,” he says. “Even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it’s going to take hundreds of years for that to circulate through the ocean. We’re going to pay this cost for a very, very long time, because we’ve already put the heat in the ocean.”"
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Exactly. Good quote.
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/
"“What people often don’t grasp is that it’s taken 100 years to get the oceans that warm at depth,” he says. “Even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it’s going to take hundreds of years for that to circulate through the ocean. We’re going to pay this cost for a very, very long time, because we’ve already put the heat in the ocean.”"
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@yokofakun
"If it takes that long, it's not my problem, it's a problem of the future. So I can do what I want."It's not a problem of understanding, it's a problem of responsibility.
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/
"“What people often don’t grasp is that it’s taken 100 years to get the oceans that warm at depth,” he says. “Even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it’s going to take hundreds of years for that to circulate through the ocean. We’re going to pay this cost for a very, very long time, because we’ve already put the heat in the ocean.”"
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@yokofakun The heat energy absorbed by the oceans in 2025 was “200 times the electrical use of everyone on the planet”. I hope we can find a way to harvest some of that energy to use or store or send into space, so we can slow down making things even worse
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/
"“What people often don’t grasp is that it’s taken 100 years to get the oceans that warm at depth,” he says. “Even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it’s going to take hundreds of years for that to circulate through the ocean. We’re going to pay this cost for a very, very long time, because we’ve already put the heat in the ocean.”"
#climate #climatechange #ocean #wereallgoingtodie #climatecrisis
@yokofakun this sort of thing is why I keep wanting an estimate of the equilibrium temperature with our current atmospheric composition - the floor of how bad it would get if we stopped greenhouse emissions today and don’t hit any tipping points, the minimum of how hot a world our descendants will live in
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/
"“What people often don’t grasp is that it’s taken 100 years to get the oceans that warm at depth,” he says. “Even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it’s going to take hundreds of years for that to circulate through the ocean. We’re going to pay this cost for a very, very long time, because we’ve already put the heat in the ocean.”"
#climate #climatechange #ocean #wereallgoingtodie #climatecrisis
"Doomed we are, Captain Mainwaring!"
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/
"“What people often don’t grasp is that it’s taken 100 years to get the oceans that warm at depth,” he says. “Even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it’s going to take hundreds of years for that to circulate through the ocean. We’re going to pay this cost for a very, very long time, because we’ve already put the heat in the ocean.”"
#climate #climatechange #ocean #wereallgoingtodie #climatecrisis
And we are losing huge amounts of ground water which flow to the oceans and are forever lost for Hunan use.
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/
"“What people often don’t grasp is that it’s taken 100 years to get the oceans that warm at depth,” he says. “Even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it’s going to take hundreds of years for that to circulate through the ocean. We’re going to pay this cost for a very, very long time, because we’ve already put the heat in the ocean.”"
#climate #climatechange #ocean #wereallgoingtodie #climatecrisis
@yokofakun
Could we create (public) industrial scale water based heat pumps and heat our homes and cool the sea? -
@yokofakun
"If it takes that long, it's not my problem, it's a problem of the future. So I can do what I want."It's not a problem of understanding, it's a problem of responsibility.
@Kampfdiestel it is a problem of understanding though.
People in crippling cc debt or payday loans have suffered from a similar, but much shorter-term lack of understanding.
As soon as they start paying off the debt, a sense of relief will emerge. It's the sense of relief of the axe towards a neck accelerating slower.
Shortly after a sense of dread will emerge. It's the sense of dread of the sound of ABS in a car: the endless seconds before the slightly delayed collision.
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@yokofakun
Could we create (public) industrial scale water based heat pumps and heat our homes and cool the sea?@AH_99 @yokofakun
> Could we create (public) industrial scale water based heat pumps and heat our homesYes, we can do! No technical problems, would work better and more efficient than heatpumps that pull heat from ambient air
> and cool the sea?
Not anywhere noticeable by a factor of a million -
@yokofakun this sort of thing is why I keep wanting an estimate of the equilibrium temperature with our current atmospheric composition - the floor of how bad it would get if we stopped greenhouse emissions today and don’t hit any tipping points, the minimum of how hot a world our descendants will live in
@ShadSterling @yokofakun If we stopped greenhouse emissions today, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would immediately start dropping as especially CO2 would be drawn down into solution in the ocean. Perhaps counter-intuitively, this will immediately fix the temperature to a constant value.
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-change-will-stop-when-we
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https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/01/the-oceans-just-keep-getting-hotter/
"“What people often don’t grasp is that it’s taken 100 years to get the oceans that warm at depth,” he says. “Even if we stopped using fossil fuels today, it’s going to take hundreds of years for that to circulate through the ocean. We’re going to pay this cost for a very, very long time, because we’ve already put the heat in the ocean.”"
#climate #climatechange #ocean #wereallgoingtodie #climatecrisis
@yokofakun And we won't stop using fossil fuels ever. We will use more and more and more and more. Our solution to the Fermi Paradox.
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@yokofakun And we won't stop using fossil fuels ever. We will use more and more and more and more. Our solution to the Fermi Paradox.
@dasdom @yokofakun Short term gains for long term extinction. What's not to like? :/
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@ShadSterling @yokofakun If we stopped greenhouse emissions today, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would immediately start dropping as especially CO2 would be drawn down into solution in the ocean. Perhaps counter-intuitively, this will immediately fix the temperature to a constant value.
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-change-will-stop-when-we
@ShadSterling @yokofakun Note that this is about the Earth surface temperature, relevant for us humans and most living things. The deep ocean would continue to slowly warm for a long time.
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@ShadSterling @yokofakun If we stopped greenhouse emissions today, the concentration of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere would immediately start dropping as especially CO2 would be drawn down into solution in the ocean. Perhaps counter-intuitively, this will immediately fix the temperature to a constant value.
https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/climate-change-will-stop-when-we
@martinvermeer @yokofakun I don’t see your claim in the link, but it sounds like you’re saying that the concentrations of CO₂ in the atmosphere and ocean are far out of equilibrium, and would rapidly approach equilibrium by CO₂ moving into the ocean. If that rate hasn’t been keeping up with emissions already I don’t see why it would catch up quickly. But I suppose the idea does illustrate that I’d have to say more to justify treating that reference as a floor
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