From: Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com>
Newsgroups: alt.global-warming,alt.fan.rush-limbaugh,can.politics,alt.politics.liberalism,alt.politics.democrats,alt.politics.usa.republican
Subject: Re: Yes, Ski Bunny... Tanking
Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2024 15:28:56 -0700
Organization: A noiseless patient Spider
On 2024-10-21 15:03, JTEM wrote:
> Alan wrote:
>
>> You think that a graph showing that 2024 sea surface temperatures are
>> higher than EVERY SINGLE YEAR
>
> It's not an El Nino year.
So?
>
> You did know that, right?
>
> An El Nino year literally means "Higher than normal
> ocean temperatures."
No. That is NOT what "El Nino year" means.
El Nino is purely a phenomenon of the tropical Pacific Ocean, not of all
the world's oceans taken together.
>
> Temperatures are not higher than normal. They are
> normal. It is NOT an El Nino year, ocean temperatures
> are NOT above normal.
Nevertheless, do you agree that with the exception of 2023, the
temperatures in the chart (that you've now conveniently snipped the
reference to and which I will now provide from a primary source) for
2024 are higher than every other year?
Here:
<https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/?dm_id=world2>
>
> Google it. Confirm it for yourself:Â 2024 is NOT an
> El Nino year, it is NOT a year with above normal
> temperatures.
And yet the sea surface temperatures are far above the average (i.e.
"normal") temperatures.
>
> Contemplate what that means.
Indeed.
You contemplate the irony of your last sentence.