I don't know whether the article is especially relevant, but sea surface temperatures have gone absolutely nuts for the past year and so anything we would have called a crazy model five years ago is now on the table.
We spent most of 2023 (April to December) 4 to 5 standard deviations above the mean for 1981-2011. This year has been higher than Q1 2023's figures by a considerable margin.
This might have something to do with decreasing sulphur dioxide concentrations from switching shipping over to cleaner fuel, or it might not.
I look at that chart too often for my own good. I don't know how people can look at that and think that we can continue as usual, though I do understand that at the end of the day, what's an individual supposed to do?
https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
We spent most of 2023 (April to December) 4 to 5 standard deviations above the mean for 1981-2011. This year has been higher than Q1 2023's figures by a considerable margin.
This might have something to do with decreasing sulphur dioxide concentrations from switching shipping over to cleaner fuel, or it might not.