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Jovial Monk wrote on Aug 8
th, 2024 at 7:46am:
Here we show that the January–March Coral Sea heat extremes in 2024, 2017 and 2020 (in order of descending mean SST anomalies) were the warmest in 400 years, exceeding the 95th-percentile uncertainty limit of our reconstructed pre-1900 maximum.
So back to 1900 they use Reynolds ESTIMATED SST's. Estimations are not science, they are best guesses and can never be data. And then - "The Coral Sea and GBR have experienced a strong warming trend
since 1900 (Fig. 1f). January–March SSTAs averaged over the GBR are strongly correlated (ρ = 0.84, P ≪ 0.01) with those in the broader Coral Sea (Fig. 1f), including when the long-term warming trend is removed from both time series (ρ = 0.69, P < 0.01; Supplementary Fig. 4). "
That is before the IPCC say CO2 had any effect. So natural warming started after the LIA. Woopee doo.
And also "The January–March mean SSTs averaged over the five mass bleaching years during the period 2016–2024 are
0.77 °C higher than the 1961–90 January–March averages in both the Coral Sea and the GBR."4
So corals with over 400 million years of climate cycles are sensitive to that small change.
And then he talks about CMIP6 - you know those models that are running way too hot.