Ocean Temperatures In 2021 Were Hotter Than Any Year In Recorded History

New research released this week has found that global ocean temperatures were hotter throughout 2021 than any other year in recorded history. Climate change is an immediate threat, but little action is being done to actual combat the effects. If the world continues on this course, we will be forced to deal with problems that once seemed unimaginable, including massive humanitarian crises that will only get worse. Ring of Fire's Farron Cousins discusses this pressing issue.

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A new study this week published in the journal of Advances in Atmospheric Science shows that in the year 2021, the oceans across the planet reached their hottest level in recorded history. No time, no other time in the history of temperature taking did the oceans get as warm as they got in the year 2021 and of course, the study says this is a direct result of anthropogenic climate change and greenhouse gas emissions, which means man-made climate change. That is what is happening and of course it is warming the oceans. Let me read this. Since the 1980s oceans have been warming eight times faster than they did during the proceeding decades and 2021 marked the third consecutive year in which the previous record for annual energy absorption was shattered. These trends, the paper makes clear, are due to an increase in anthropogenic greenhouse gas concentrations.

On top of that, a recent study that came out last week showed that the last seven years in our atmosphere have been the hottest on record. So the planet is warming. The oceans are warming. That is undeniable. They're warming at rates that should be alarming to everyone knows what that means. And here we are as a species, because this is a global issue, doing effectively nothing about it. And I know a lot of people are gonna jump in and be like, no Farron, the COP26 they just had, they all pledged we're gonna reduce these things. Sure, I know that they did. I also know this. Before and during the recent COP26 climate summit, many governments pledged to reduce planet heating pollution in the coming years, but new data showing a steady increase in greenhouse gas emissions and atmospheric concentrations reveals that empty promises won't be enough to avert the climate emergencies most catastrophic consequences.

So in spite of the pledges, in spite of the fact that we now here in the United States have a president who accepts the science of climate change, we are still as a people, as a species, as a planet, not actually doing any of the things we're pledging to do. And in the few areas around the globe where they are doing things they need to do, we're offsetting it in countries, just like the United States by increasing the number of offshore oil rigs. We're doubling down on fossil fuels here at a time when we should be basically kicking the habit. Okay. We should be coming down off of that addiction by this point. This is not new. We're not just now learning about climate change, folks. It has been over three years now, it was 2018, remember that? We got that report that said we only have 12 years to act before the worst effects of climate change basically become permanent. That came out in October of 2018.

We're now in January of 2022 and we've literally done nothing as a country in that span of time. And I know a lot of people wanna say, but Biden's got, no, listen. One man for the next two, three years, in fact, it's really only the next one year because Republicans win midterms, nothing's gonna happen. But one man doing one thing in one country is not going to do anything to solve this problem. This is a global problem and it is time to act. We have to look past all of these empty promises and force the action ourselves. And it really sucks that we have to be the ones to do it.