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Hurricanes, heatwaves and rising seas: The impacts of record ocean heat<\/a><\/h3>\n<\/div>\n
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Excessive phytoplankton growth can choke the sea surface with a jelly-like layer of slime known as “sea snot” as ocean temperatures increase (Credit: Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Record ocean temperatures suggest the seas are warming faster than expected, and the impacts will be felt from polar ice shelves to coastal cities across the globe.<\/b><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The world’s oceans are like a planet-sized battery: they absorb huge amounts of heat, which is then released slowly. So far, our oceans have\u00a0soaked up over 90% of the heat<\/a>\u00a0trapped in the Earth’s atmosphere by rising greenhouse gas emissions. But recently, their\u00a0rate of warming has been dramatic<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Every day since late March 2023, global ocean surface temperatures have set\u00a0new records<\/a>\u00a0for the hottest temperature ever recorded on that date. On 47 of those days, temperatures have also surpassed previous highs by the largest margin seen in the satellite era, according to data from the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service. (Read the analysis of the data in this article by the BBC News Climate and Science team<\/i><\/a>.<\/i>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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In February 2024, the world had breached\u00a01.5C warming of surface air temperatures<\/a>\u00a0for a full year.\u00a0But in some regions last year, ocean temperatures were similar to those expected\u00a0if overall global warming of surface air temperatures reached 3C<\/a>\u00a0above pre-industrial levels \u2013 suggesting quicker ocean heating than expected.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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This rapid heating raises a puzzle for scientists: why is recent ocean warming even greater than models suggest?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

“The step-change in ocean temperatures over last year is huge,” says Hayley Fowler, professor of climate change impacts at Newcastle University in the UK. “The fact we can’t simulate these step-change increases and understand why it’s happening is terrifying.”<\/div>\n
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Hurricanes, heatwaves and rising seas: The impacts of record ocean heat Getty Images Excessive phytoplankton growth can choke the sea surface with a jelly-like layer of slime known as “sea snot” as ocean temperatures increase (Credit: Getty Images) Record ocean temperatures suggest the seas are warming faster than expected, and the impacts will be felt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[64,288,2746,34540,1273,15922],"class_list":["post-68031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-bbc","tag-extreme-weather","tag-heat-wave","tag-hurricanses","tag-ocean-warming","tag-rising-seas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68031"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68031\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68032,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68031\/revisions\/68032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}