Everyone knows that the ocean is the "weather kitchen" on the planet. This means that all these weather anomalies that we see have their cause in the ocean. What is the biggest problem of the world's oceans? Plastic is an invention of mankind: it is convenient, cheap and you can just throw it away. And what about ecology? Ecology is expensive, inconvenient, and what can happen because of bottles with bags. It turned out that it could.
We killed the ocean, we destroyed ecosystems, we broke the main function of the ocean – the cooling of the planet.
You may have a question: "How did we manage to kill an entire ocean? After all, it has existed on our planet for billions of years, it is a huge volume of water. How?" It's very simple.
We began to do something that no one had done before us, neither nature nor the civilizations of the past: to produce synthetic hydrocarbons in huge quantities, the same plastic. But we did not bother with the issue of its disposal, from the word at all. Yes, recycling programs have appeared now, but this is a drop in the ocean of the enormous amount of plastic waste that we have already produced and are producing.
And it's not even that huge amounts of garbage are directly dumped into rivers, seas and eventually oceans. The property of synthetic hydrocarbons is that they do not decompose into any other compounds, but break down into small particles of micro and nanoplastics. And these particles naturally wash out, erode and end up where? In our ecosystems, the main one of which is the ocean.
Thus, since the beginning of mass production of plastic in the 50s of the XX century, almost all plastic ended up in the ocean. Now, according to various estimates, there are from 75 to 200 million tons of plastic there. If you add up the area of all the plastic islands in the ocean, then this is the area of the United States and Australia combined. But the amount of plastic that we see on the ocean surface is no more than 1%. The main part of it is located in the depths. Almost every drop of the ocean already has particles of micro or nanoplastics.
And by the way, this is the reason why the Great Barrier Reef, a huge living organism that existed in the ocean for billions of years, has almost died right now. Plastic is a problem of the world's oceans that we have created.
As we said above, plastic does not decompose in the environment, but splits into small particles known as micro and nanoplastics. And these particles completely permeate the entire thickness of the ocean. Plastic has its own chemical characteristics, in particular, it has a low thermal conductivity. And this property has had a critical impact on the thermal conductivity of the ocean. Due to the total pollution of micro plastics, the ocean has become worse at removing heat coming from the bowels of the planet. And he began to accumulate it.
And this happened exactly when we need the ocean and its function to cool the planet like air for the survival of mankind. Because right now our solar system has entered the zone of exposure to cosmic radiation, which affects the core of our planet and causes the release of excess heat.
This cosmic impact is known in the history of our planet as a 12,000-year cycle of geomagnetic excursions, that is, the weakening of the magnetic field and the onset of a phase of cataclysms. Today we have already studied this cycle quite well, it was unclear only what causes it. Now we also know this – cosmic radiation of a new nature, which freely passes through all the Earth's shells and environments, except for the core of the planet – an object of ultrahigh density. Here in the core, this new radiation provokes processes that lead to heating. It was as if something had started to jam in the car's engine, and it was warming up from friction.
What do we get in total? The Earth's core emits excess heat due to external influences. And the main radiator of our planet, the ocean, has significantly reduced its thermal conductivity due to pollution with synthetic hydrocarbons.
To understand the process, we can give such an analogy. We took a hamburger, wrapped it in a plastic bag and put it in the microwave to warm up. The plastic bag will retain a significant amount of heat inside, and our burger will warm up well. This means that the cutlet, ketchup and bun will get very hot. This is exactly what is happening to our planet, its core, magma, crust and ocean – they are heating up more and more, due to the fact that heat is not being removed. And this is happening for the first time in the history of the Earth.
Let's add here that about 30 million tons of oil leak into the ocean every year as a result of various accidents during transportation and production. 1 ton of oil is enough to create a film with an area of 12 square kilometers. That is, 30 million tons will cover 360 million square kilometers of ocean out of 361. That is, completely! Yes, we will collect something, something will evaporate, but most of it will remain in the ocean and will poison ecosystems and retain the heat of the subsurface.
In the previous 12,000-year cycles, when the heating of the earth's interior began, the ocean, due to its high heat capacity and thermal conductivity, took excess heat from inside the Earth and brought it to the surface, and then into the atmosphere and space. But now, the ocean is increasingly storing heat inside itself. And this causes more active evaporation of water into the atmosphere along with microplastics, which thus accumulates in the atmosphere. And here it has exactly the same effect: it reduces the thermal conductivity of the atmosphere. Let's add here that the main greenhouse gas is water vapor and that in the process of heating the subsoil, active degassing occurs with the release of carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases, and we end up with our planet being wrapped in a synthetic blanket with strong internal heating.
That's what causes such a rapid increase in climate disasters on the planet and that's why the main problem of the oceans is plastic.
Everything that we have described is confirmed by a lot of facts and is clearly visible on the charts. The most obvious is the graph of heat accumulation in the oceans.
The years are marked horizontally, and the heat accumulated in the ocean is marked vertically. The red line is the accumulation of heat in the lower layers, the blue line is the heating of the ocean from above. Until 1995, the water on the surface was heated more than in depth – the blue line on the graph was higher than the red one. But then everything changed: the water began to heat up more from below, the red line became higher than the red one.
It was in 1995 that the impact on the core of the planet was recorded, the heating of magma and its rise to the oceanic plates, which in turn began to heat the water column. It's like how a warm floor warms the air in a room. Therefore, since 1995, we have seen the accumulation of heat in the deep layers of the ocean.
The following two graphs show the dynamics of heat accumulation in the ocean to a depth of 2000 meters provided by two different international research institutes.
As we can see, the data almost completely repeat each other. It turns out that over the past 30 years, the rate of ocean heating has increased by 450%. In order to give the ocean such additional heat, we would have to detonate 10 nuclear bombs in the ocean every minute for 30 years. It's hard to even imagine how much energy this is.
In this graph, each line shows the average ocean surface temperature in a certain year from 1981 to 2024. Yellow indicates the temperature for 2016, orange for 2023, red for 2024. The white line is the average temperature for the entire observation period. We see that the ocean temperature in 2023 is much higher than in previous years, and 2024 has set an even higher bar. This has never been observed before.
We propose to track the dynamics of 2024 together: https://climatereanalyzer.org/clim/sst_daily/
It is important to understand that the ocean shapes the weather, it regulates temperature and humidity. An overheated ocean provokes the growth of such natural disasters as hurricanes, storms, typhoons, floods, tornadoes, hail, and extreme heat. These cataclysms have already increased significantly in countries bordered by seas and oceans in southern latitudes.
Imagine that next to us there are huge kettles with boiling water. The water evaporates and saturates the atmosphere with moisture. This causes intense rainfall, which leads to large-scale floods, river flooding, landslides, flooding of cities and destruction of infrastructure. In the northern and mountainous regions, we get abnormal snowfalls, blizzards, and avalanches. Warming up the atmosphere accelerates the winds, and we already see how small hurricanes become hurricanes of the highest category in a matter of hours, and ordinary storms become storms of the century. They even predict the formation of a permanent hurricane on Earth, which will operate all year round, as, for example, on Jupiter.
Excess moisture and heat in the atmosphere is what breaks all weather forecasts
The ocean is the main supplier of oxygen on Earth, it produces 80% of all oxygen. Do you think the loss of ocean ecosystems, such as the Great Barrier Reef, will affect this indicator?
And these are only cataclysms directly provoked by the ocean. But we remember that excess heat comes from the bowels and if they are poorly cooled, then magma becomes hotter, expands more and more, exerting pressure on the Earth's crust, provoking earthquakes and volcanic eruptions.
So, we see that due to the heating of the ocean from the rise of deep magma, more and more cataclysms occur. Microplastics in the ocean and atmosphere exacerbate this heating process. The accumulated energy is splashing out all over the planet in the form of increasingly powerful catastrophes.
Will we have time to take measures to save the ocean before it takes us with it when it dies?
