20 May

I posted a few times last year about the persistently high ocean temperatures off Australia, the cause of our seemingly never-ending torrential rainfall on the coast. The oceans are enormous heatsinks, absorbing much of the heat we create by burning fossil fuels, 6 to 8 atomic bomb’s worth of heat every second. They now can’t absorb any more and are starting to release that heat back into the atmosphere. That will supercharge already almost unlivable temperatures in different parts of the world. It’s killing marine ecosystems as well. Meanwhile it’s becoming increasingly difficult to provide clean drinking water because of never-ending blue green algal blooms. This is what happens when you burn energy that took 3 million years to store, in only 300 years.