Note to The Guardian: Why a 17-Year-Old’s Ocean ‘Thermometer’ Won’t Save the Planet

[rangerrebew]

Note to The Guardian: Why a 17-Year-Old’s Ocean ‘Thermometer’ Won’t Save the Planet
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November 26, 2024
 

Guest essay by Charles Rotter, originally published on Watts Up With That.

Oh, look, The Guardian is at it again, serving up a piping hot plate of climate hysteria with a side of precocious child activism. This time, they’ve hauled out a 17-year-old surfer from Brazil to lecture us all at COP29 about how the ocean is allegedly “getting warmer.” Because, obviously, who needs thermometers, satellite data, or rigorous reconstructions of ocean temperatures when you’ve got a kid paddling around on a surfboard who can tell us the planetary ocean temperature?

“As a surfer, I’m constantly on the ocean, and I actually felt the oceans warming,” says Catarina Lorenzo, 17, a professional surfer from Salvador, in Bahia state in Brazil.

https://climaterealism.com/2024/11/note-to-the-guardian-why-a-17-year-olds-ocean-thermometer-wont-save-the-planet/

[rangerrebew]

I think she's just trying to undo Greta Thunberg's road to Sainthood.

[DefiantMassRINO]

North Atlantic Right Whales seem to be making the best of changing ocean temperatures ...

https://www.boston.com/news/environment/2024/11/26/first-right-whales-season-gorge-critical-food-off-massachusetts-giving-hope/
First right whales of season gorge on critical food off Massachusetts, giving hope for a strong year
The giant animals migrate, and usually arrive in Cape Cod Bay off Massachusetts early in the winter and stay until around the middle of May.

By PATRICK WHITTLE, Associated Press
November 26, 2024 | 8:28 AM

... Scientists with the Center for Coastal Studies in Provincetown, Massachusetts, said they observed the first two right whales of the season in the bay on Nov. 18, and the animals are finding abundant food. The scientists said the animals were observed feeding on tiny organisms near the surface of the water, which is a behavior they don’t usually exhibit until much later in the season.

Water samples collected in the path of the right whales showed a combination of the microscopic crustaceans the whales love to eat, said Christy Hudak, a researcher with the center. One of the crustaceans is Calanus finmarchicus, an oil-rich species that is critical to whale health, Hudak said.

“Although Calanus was not the dominant species in the sample, its presence in higher numbers is unusual for this time of year and it will be exciting to see if the food resource this year will prove a banner season for right whales in Cape Cod Bay,” Hudak said. ...