Global Warming...New Report...and it ain't happy news

The volcanoes in Hawaii are a good example

The volcanoes in Hawaii are a good example, because they are far away from plate boundaries.

with declining shield volcanoes.

Mantle plumes and hor pots are individually different from ach other as BOTH are different from Tectonic "ridges".
You brought up the subject , remember?

My geology teacher part of me likes to dwell in entire accuracy rather than that of popular science)

"Klimahysterie" (climate hysteria) has been named Germany's derogatory catchword of the year, announced the jury of the "Unwort des Jahres," (Non-Word of the Year) on Tuesday.

The expression aims to "defame climate protection efforts and the climate protection movement and to discredit debates" on the topic, the jury of linguists from the Technical University of Darmstadt said.

In a year marked by the Fridays for Future movement initiated by teenage Swedish activist Greta Thunberg, many commentators and politicians have attempted to dismiss the global emergency as collective hysteria. For example, Alexander Gauland, prominent politician for the far-right Alternative for Germany (AFD) party said in June, "The AfD will not participate in the climate hysteria of the other parties."

Derogatory expression of the year

The Non-Word of the Year title aims to bring to light the media's use of language and to advance awareness of words which violate human dignity and the principles of democracy or lead to discrimination.

Established in 1991, the political buzzword was selected by the Society for German Language until 1994, when an independent jury on Darmstadt took over the yearly project. Anyone may propose a word, and the jury makes the final decision.

The jury received over the year 671 proposals from the public, amounting to 397 different expressions, including "Bauernbashing" (farmer-bashing), "Ökodikatur" (eco-dictatorship), "Bevölkerungsexplosion" (population explosion or "Ethikmauer" (ethical wall).

In 2018, the winner was "anti-deportation industry," an expression accusing those who undertake legal support for deportees of doing so for financial profit. The previous year's Non-Word was the Donald Trump-inspired "alternative facts,"while in 2016 the term "Volksverräter" ("traitor to the nation") came out on top, with the jury noting that the word is a "legacy of dictatorships," including that of National Socialism in Germany.

Our world is getting warmer - not only the atmosphere, but also the oceans. The past ten years have brought the highest temperatures in the oceans since the 1950s, an international team of scientists reports in the journal "Advances in Atmospheric Sciences". The most recent five years have been the warmest in each case.

2019 was therefore the year with the highest water temperature recorded in the ocean since measurements began. The sea temperature down to a depth of two kilometres was about 0.075 degrees above the average from 1981 to 2010, according to the paper, which was written by Cheng Lijing of the Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP) at China's Academy of Sciences (CAS). The researchers also point out that climate change is accelerating the warming of the oceans.

Record-Setting Ocean Warmth Continued in 2019

"anti-deportation industry," an expression accusing those who undertake legal support for deportees of doing so for financial profit.

Really we need more explanation of how the heat taken up in the oceans is distributed further into atmospheric water vapor and deeper ocean thermal currents, as well as what happens to those thermal currents within the oceans.

It is easy for people to assume that the oceans are giant and thus that any extra heat absorbed by them will just disappear, but like the atmosphere, the oceans must have climatological patterns that should be understood fully in order to predict the long-term effects of continually adding heat/CO2 to them.

Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp and Fox cited for ‘frustrating’ coverage of Australian bushfires

James and Kathryn Murdoch have issued a statement criticising Rupert Murdoch’s firms for ‘ongoing denial’ on the climate crisis.

Rupert Murdoch’s son has strongly criticised his family’s news outlets for downplaying the impact of the climate crisis, as bushfires continue to burn in Australia.

James Murdoch and his wife Kathryn issued a rare joint statement directly criticising his father’s businesses for their “ongoing denial” on the issue, which has manifested in the family’s newspapers repeatedly casting doubt on the link between the climate emergency and the bushfires.

“Kathryn and James’s views on climate are well-established and their frustration with some of the News Corp and Fox coverage of the topic is also well-known,” a spokesperson for the couple told the Daily Beast. “They are particularly disappointed with the ongoing denial among the news outlets in Australia given obvious evidence to the contrary.”

James Murdoch was most recently the chairman of the family’s 21st Century Fox entertainment business, leaving when it merged with Disney. He is currently making media investments through his own Lupa Systems company but continues to sit on the board of the family’s newspaper business News Corp, which also owns the Times and the Sun.

The bushfires have focused attention on the likes of Andrew Bolt, a political commentator for News Corp’s Australian newspapers who is known for promoting the views of climate science deniers, and for his own attacks on “alarmists” and his derision of climate change science.

He also has a programme on the Murdoch-owned Sky News Australia, where he has criticised the “constant stream of propaganda” on the public broadcaster ABC about the role of the climate crisis in the bushfires.

“Politicians who should do better are out there feeding the fear and misinformation,” he said in a recent broadcast criticising politicians who said carbon emissions needed to be cut to avoid future fires. “As if that would stop a fire. You’d have to be a child like Greta Thunberg to believe that fairytale.”

US viewers have also heard commentary from Fox News presenters such as Laura Ingraham, who has said that “celebrities in the media have been pressing the narrative that the wildfires in Australia are caused by climate change”, before introducing guests who cast doubt on this interpretation.

James Murdoch’s criticism sheds light on the family’s internal rifts, amid speculation over his 88-year-old father’s succession plans. James’s older brother Lachlan is still actively involved in the family businesses as the US-based chairman and chief executive of the slimmed-down Fox Corporation, which owns Fox News.

Last year Rupert Murdoch told shareholders there “there are no climate change deniers” around his company and said his business was early to commit to “science-based targets to limit climate change” and was working to reduce its climate emissions.

However, he has been publicly critical about the “alarmist” approach to the issue. In 2015 he used his Twitter account to describe himself as a “climate change sceptic not a denier”.

Lachlan Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch and News Corp have all separately donated millions of dollars to bushfire recovery efforts in recent days, although the Daily Beast claimed the donations were made after it requested comment about James Murdoch’s statement on climate change.