One of the obvious signs of the climate crisis is the rise in ocean temperatures. The oceans directly receive and store heat energy, which means oceanic ecosystem is affected by it.
This becomes evident by the detrimental effects of the rise in ocean temperatures on coral reefs.
A recent CNN news about a report on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef makes it very clear.
Attributing the cause of such a devastation of coral reefs to natural variability and man made climate change is a complex scientific exercise.
There is a natural El Niño weather pattern this year.
Interested researchers might ask how much of this devastation of the Australian Great Barrier Reef is due to orbital forcing and how much of it is due to the rise in ocean temperatures because of climate change.
A proceeding paper and two peer reviewed papers at the following links may be helpful for interested researchers in this complex attribution endeavor.
Validation of Predicted Weak El Niño/La Niña Event during Water Year 2013
Step toward a Deterministic Solution of the Paradoxical Hydrological Stationarity Problem
Validation of predicted meteorological drought in California using analogous orbital geometries
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Messele Zewdie Ejeta
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