A sudden marine heat wave off the coast of Florida has surprised scientists and sent water temperatures soaring to unprecedented highs, threatening one of the most severe coral bleaching events the state has ever seen.
Kinda the nature of climate science/news though. Too many variables to report in absolutes; and historically these kinds of articles also err on the more conservative side of any kind of projections so as to not seem alarmist, so I suspect that’s a big factor in the “well, it could be super horrible, but y’know maybe we forgot to carry a 1 or something in our math and it’s actually going to be only kind of horrible… time will tell!” -kinda language. Gotta leave some wiggle room for people to be carry that wishful optimism.
Kinda the nature of climate science/news though. Too many variables to report in absolutes; and historically these kinds of articles also err on the more conservative side of any kind of projections so as to not seem alarmist, so I suspect that’s a big factor in the “well, it could be super horrible, but y’know maybe we forgot to carry a 1 or something in our math and it’s actually going to be only kind of horrible… time will tell!” -kinda language. Gotta leave some wiggle room for people to be carry that wishful optimism.