The oceans are heating so fast, some scientists call for a new “Category 6” hurricane classification

1. 2024-07-12 at 4:42 AM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   The oceans are heating so fast, some scientists call for a new “Category 6” hurricane classification
   
   

   Rising ocean heat poses new threats in terms of damaging hurricanes—some scientists have called for a new “category 6” classification to be added to storms above 192mph—but also to the vast network of life, including humanity, which depends on the marine expanse that covers 70 percent of the planet.
   
   Oceans are soaking up vast quantities of human-created emissions and heat, which is shielding people on land from even worse temperature rises but also warping fish populations, dissolving away coral reefs and shellfish, robbing the seas of oxygen, and potentially upending foundational ocean currents.

2. 2024-07-12 at 4:49 AM UTC

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   Lanny Lanny African Astronaut
   Obbe this is not a thing. The world goes through cycles of change. radical cold and hots and mild seasons and windy dry periods.
   
   sometimes they last 10,000 years straight and sometimes they happen for a century or half a century of long periods of weather change.
   
   next year is supposed to be La Nina and so it will be very cool or cold and maybe a long winter for the Midwest or east coast. like all the way into June like NYC had that one time
3. 2024-08-05 at 2:33 PM UTC

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   Obbe Alan What? [annoy my right-angled speediness]
   Don't believe your eyes or ears.
4. 2024-08-05 at 2:39 PM UTC

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   Bradley Florida Man [my infernally top-secret etiology]
   Will they rename the malt liquor Hurricane Category 5s???
   
   Alcoholics around the nation are scratching their head wondering what their future beer will evolve into in reference to icnreasing climate change.
   
   
   Also OP Is a category 7 thread maker.
5. 2024-08-08 at 3:47 AM UTC

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   Elbow African Astronaut
   Wow, that's crazy.