The Washington Post is a propaganda outlet, and this is fear propaganda. This type of organization has learned a wonderful trick, and they use it all the time: they report current events <i>without checking for precedent</i>. Why? Because there almost always <i>is</i> precedent, which makes the current event seem <i>less alarming</i>, which is obviously no good for them.<p>This story is supposed to be due to global warming / climate change, right? If so, why is it easy to find reports of the same kind of thing happening over a hundred years ago, before humans had emitted any appreciable amount of CO2?<p>Here's one from 1912: <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/1912/02/12/archives/hot-ocean-boils-fish-gulf-sailors-report-passing-through-zone-of.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nytimes.com/1912/02/12/archives/hot-ocean-boils-...</a>
"HOT OCEAN BOILS FISH.; Gulf Sailors Report Passing Through Zone of Scalding Water." Inconvenient for the CO2 hypothesis, huh.<p>Please. Start checking for precedent when you see stories like this. I think you'll find it eye-opening.