El Niño Has Already Risen Some Pacific Region Sea Levels by Over 1 Foot
Climate scientists warn that the heat expansion already raising some Pacific sea levels by 1.3 feet this El Niño season will become even more deadly thanks to the Moon itself.
Via Gizmodo
Hot water expands. Whether you knew that empirically, intuitively, not at all, or only dimly from the distant memory of a good classroom science experiment, the fact remains that the thermal expansion generated by this year’s El Niño is raising sea-levels dramatically across the eastern Pacific.
Working with altimetry measurements from NASA’s Sentinel-6 satellite, researchers with NASA’s Scientific Visualization Studio now say that parts of the eastern Pacific have climbed up as high as 1.3 feet (40 centimeters) due this…
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