{"id":318591,"date":"2024-04-17T13:15:33","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:15:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=318591"},"modified":"2024-04-17T13:15:36","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T11:15:36","slug":"more-ocean-temperature-data-more-diving-this-weekend-great-keppel-island","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=318591","title":{"rendered":"More Ocean Temperature Data & More Diving, This Weekend \u2013 Great Keppel Island"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From Jennifer Marohasy<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By\u00a0jennifer<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019m back in Yeppoon.  This afternoon I was at Wreck Point, and in the distance, over my left shoulder, you can see Great Keppel Island.  According to the New York Times<\/em> there is mass coral bleaching there (CLICK HERE<\/a>).  A photograph of the corals at Monkey Beach reef featured in an article in that newspaper just yesterday.   It was apparently taken on March 5, 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(I\u2019m hoping to see these corals for myself this weekend.   To be sure to know what I find out, to be sure to see the photographs I\u2019m hoping to take, consider subscribing for my free email updates (CLICK HERE<\/a>).)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The New York Times<\/em> attributes the bleaching to extraordinarily warm ocean temperatures.  Of course, there is no chart, no data \u2013 no information on actual ocean temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It is exceedingly rare for any newspaper to ever publish location specific temperature data.  In fact, that is the only real type of temperature data: location specific data.    Everything else is a construct \u2013 a contrived statistic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The picture of the bleached corals at Great Keppel Island, published in the\u00a0New York Times,<\/em>\u00a0was apparently provided by AIMS (Australian Institute of Marine Sciences).\u00a0 Of course, they also have temperature data.\u00a0 One of their key weather stations is at Square Rocks just to the northwest of Great Keppel Island.\u00a0 There is data for the period December 19, 2009, through to February 19, 2024.\u00a0 This data, consistent with the information I have previously published for the central region does not suggest that ocean temperatures have been particularly warm this last summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AIMS water temperature data for Square Rock just to the northwest of Great Keppel Island measured at 2.9 and 7.9 metres depths.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

(There is very little difference in the two temperature profiles at the different depths so there is much overlap in the above chart. \u00a0For clarity I will also now post these times series separately.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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There is sea level data for Rosslyn Bay, just across a little further to the east from Great Keppel Island.  (I will be catching the ferry to Great Keppel Island from Rosslyn Bay marina at the end of the week, weather permitting and passing Square Rock.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This sea level data indicates monthly averages are towards the low end of their annual cycle, and have stalled.\u00a0\u00a0 This is consistent with an El Nino event and the water sloshing over to the other side of the Pacific Ocean, you can read more about the phenomenon at the NOAA website (CLICK HERE<\/a>).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Monthly sea levels at Rosslyn Bay Marina, more information https:\/\/psmsl.org\/data\/obtaining\/stations\/1760.php<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Could it be that the bleaching at Great Keppel Island has more to do with lower-than-average sea levels for this time of year, rather than unusually warm water?  I\u2019m just asking the question.  (It is perhaps better to have questions that cannot be answered, rather than answers that cannot be questioned.)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Square Rock also has air temperature data, and, of course, the two move somewhat in unison except that the air is consistently a little cooler.\u00a0\u00a0 This is the air that has all the greenhouse gases, that is meant to be warming the ocean.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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AIMS air temperature and water temperature data for Square Rock, just to the northwest of Great Keppel Island.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Of course, only someone who believes the nonsense from the experts and who can\u2019t read a chart could believe that the air warms the ocean!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The sun warms the ocean that warms the atmosphere.\u00a0 That is what happens in the tropics at least, which is where I live.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It has been a very wet summer and so my much neglected garden is doing well. \u00a0 It can get very dry here. \u00a0Usually drier summers are hotter summers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

MORE INFORMATION. UPDATE 17TH APRIL 2024<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u2019ve looked around for more information, and found water temperature data for Rosslyn Bay, that is just across from Great Keppel Island. This time series that is collected by the Australian Baseline Sea Level Monitoring Project is twice as long, beginning in 1991, and complete for this last summer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Consistent with the AIMS data for Square Rocks, it does NOT suggest that this last summer has been particularly warm. It shows a distinct seasonal trend; it does not show global warming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Water temperature data for Rosslyn Bay can be downloaded at http:\/\/www.bom.gov.au\/oceanography\/projects\/abslmp\/data\/monthly.shtml<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

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