Darrik Burns

Climate Posted on:  2025-08-06 Scientific data clearly shows that ocean temperatures are warming at an accelerating rate and that this long-term trend has been driven by human-caused climate change. Misinformers attempt to ‘hide’ this long-term trend by zooming in on shorter time periods with strong El Niño and La Niña events. These events can temporarily affect ocean surface temperatures in a way that does not persist over decades, and thus does not reflect long-term climate trends.

Climate Posted on:  2025-07-21 Recent articles and social media posts inaccurately summarized findings from a June 2025 PNAS paper by claiming that a ‘major current in the Southern Ocean has reversed’. In reality, the PNAS paper does not mention any ‘ocean current reversal’. Instead, the paper mentions a ‘reversal’ of a decades-long trend: the Southern Ocean’s surface is now becoming saltier, instead of ‘fresher’.

Climate Posted on:  2025-08-05 At the end of July 2025, the United States Department of Energy (U.S. DOE) published a report titled ‘A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate’.