The Ethical Skeptic is an anonymous blog on contrarian science, COVID origins, climate, archaeology, and the ECDO hypothesis.
HN commenters call it a fun read with conspiracy vibes that stops short of full wackiness, and link its ECDO posts and COVID claims.
I came across this hypothesis a few years ago and thought it was an interesting possibility, but that there wasn't any data that really supported it. In light of the data of the last few months I honestly can't think of a hypothesis that better explains what is going on with ocean temperature, especially in regions that should be in winter right now.
https://theethicalskeptic.com/2020/02/16/the-climate-change-alternative-we-ignore-to-our-peril/
It's a really long article and has been updated continuously for 3 years as new data has been coming in, but I think it really explains how this warming is being driven from the crust and bottom of the ocean up, and not via atmospheric warming. It also has an interesting proposal for the linkage between this observed warming and the variance of Earth's rotation, as well as the long observed weakening of the magnetic field.
It may be a heat pulse from the core - which is related to the recent rotational speedup. This can release large quantities of heat into the ocean.
https://theethicalskeptic.com/tag/core-exothermic-cycle/
Excerpt: Observation 7 (Deductive-Falsifying-Consilient) – El Cuervo Blanco – Spring 2023 Global and North Atlantic Heat Plume – 48% of global ocean sea surface temperature heat content rise from 1995 to 2023 arrived in a mere 3 weeks of 2023, far too fast for the atmosphere or man to serve as the cause. A record level Antarctic ice melt-off occurred simultaneously to this and during a record cold winter
The abrupt ocean heating is also reflected in the recent spike in satellite tropospheric temperature measurements.
https://www.drroyspencer.com/2023/11/uah-global-temperature-update-for-october-2023-0-93-deg-c/
Poorly analyzed it seems.
The person is comparing real-time, yearly jitter to a line of the 1982-2011 mean. And for some non-obvious reason is also drawing the area between two curves of the 2022 jitter and the 2023 jitter (separated in time by literally 365 days), and then saying that this differential between the two curves compared to the 1982-2011 mean is an energy jump over 3 weeks. If this says anything, it's only saying that the 2022 jitter and the 2023 jitter do not precisely go up and down at the exact same dates a year apart! Nothing more.
The graphic I'm looking at from your link: https://theethicalskeptic.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/09/July-2023-SST-Warming-Global.png
When you understand that human and animals organic dejections are alternative fertiliser and that most aerial virus spreads through shit you can understand the main way how covid 19 was spread accross the world with very high correlation between biosolid (shit based fertiliser) spray on fields and covid 19 infection in US for exemple (https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-concealed-sars-cov-2-presence-in-china-as-far-back-as-march-2018/)
You might be interested in reading this (very long, amateur, pseudononymous, non-peer-reviewed) analysis theorizing "SARS-CoV-2 presence in China as far back as March 2018." [0]
[0] https://theethicalskeptic.com/2021/11/15/chinas-ccp-concealed-sars-cov-2-presence-in-china-as-far-back-as-march-2018/
This correlates (in a scary way) with some interesting hypothesizing I've seen about possible cataclysims from earth's core changing within human history: https://theethicalskeptic.com/2024/05/23/master-exothermic-core-mantle-decoupling-dzhanibekov-oscillation-theory/