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Met Office warning over marine heatwave - what is it?

The Met Office has warned of a marine heatwave sweeping UK waters, with sea-surface temperatures spiking in the English Channel and North Sea.

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This is the new normal now. We have cleared the tipping point. All we can do now to adjust, adapt or perish.
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we are completely fucked
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just when you thought lobster couldn't get any more expensive.
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No details of gradients of temperatures at increasing depths.

If this is surface temperatures ONLY, then this is scaremongering, especially given that the percentage volume of affected water - a very necessary factor in the eventual dispersal heating effect through the whole depth of water - again is not mentioned.
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Importing thirty million unnecessarily doesn't help with carbon footprints.
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Very unfortunate. We're not doing enough to protect our marine environment.
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We'll be getting sharks soon
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Suddenly all those Extinction Rebellion protests don't look so ridiculous do they?
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The mist formed by avaiation makes the heat unbearable
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Here’s a warning from Spain, and please, please, take it seriously. The warming of sea water is the precursor to what we call a “Dana” a weather phenomenon that brings extremely intense rains and floodings when temperatures begin to drop after the summer. Valencia and Barcelona have been enduring this for years, but as the Mediterranean Sea gets warmer every summer, the situation is becoming worse. Last year’s Danas claimed 224 lives, left 3 people missing, and destroyed 11,242 buildings (homes, businesses, schools), 141,000 cars, 800 kilometres of roads, and 380 bridges. And this year’s is expected to be even worse. Please take very good care and prepare your homes if you live by the coast.
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I noticed the abundance of octopus in the sea this weekend, I ended up getting tickled nine times by them..
I was hoping for ten tickles.
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Turds and crisp packets do hold a fair bit of heat man
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People can't seem to grasp that our economy has an expiry date, and it is in no way prepared or indeed able to reverse the problems it has caused. All our resources should be utilized to protecting natural ecosystems, rather than being wasted on bombing civilians which increases the earth temperature anyway. We need to make a stand now while we have options. The alternative is gradual extinction.
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Hasn't there been a 'super el nino' too?
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Hope everyone is staying cool and hydrated.🙏👍
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Channel Four and ITV are so much better at climate reporting than the BBC!
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Were going to see mass deaths all over the world much quicker than anybody thought.
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Hope everyone in the UK is doing well and staying cool. Love from Texas.❤❤❤❤❤
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We have been talking about this for years but nobody listens its like they want this to happen >
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Pumping raw sewage into the sea isn’t absolutely fantastic either