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'It's not just land seeing record heat waves.
Ocean waters in the Northern Hemisphere have been unusually warm in recent
weeks, with parts of the North Atlantic and northern Pacific undergoing
particularly intense marine heat waves.
Sea surface temperatures in these regions hit record levels this summer, said
Dillon Amaya, a research scientist at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration's Physical Sciences Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado. Parts of
the Pacific and North Atlantic have been anywhere from 2 degrees Celsius (3.6
degrees Fahrenheit) to 5 degrees C (9 degrees F) warmer than average at times,
conditions that have not been observed since record keeping began roughly six
decades ago.
"It's been very extreme — some of the hottest temperatures we've seen on record
— and they've hung around for several months," Amaya said.
Oceans naturally absorb and store heat, making these reservoirs good indicators
of how much the planet is warming. Studies have found that oceans have absorbed
more than 90% of the heat trapped on Earth from greenhouse gas emissions since
1970.
As climate change causes the pace of ocean warming to accelerate, scientists
are concerned about the potential consequences for marine ecosystems, sea-level
rise and extreme weather.'
Via Doug Senko.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
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