Showing posts with label Ocean Warming. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Ocean Warming. Show all posts

Monday, February 3, 2025

The Extent of Ocean's Warming Has Been Underestimated

 There have been two Climate Change impacts I have been talking about on this blog for years. One is that we have been underestimating Climate Change (https://motherearthprayers.blogspot.com/search/label/Underestimating%20Climate%20Change)

and that there is a multiplier affect, where the components--rising temperature, air pollution....--interact with each other and magnify their affects.

It seems like less than a year ago it was reported we have been underestimating  rising water temperatures. Well this past week it happened again. An Environmental Research Letters Study found

--Ocean warming 4 times faster than in 1980s — and will likely  accelerate in coming decades.

-- The acceleration in ocean warming is due to climate change and the Earth taking in more energy than it's emitting. 

--the warming ocean trend has picked up in the last 15 years because Earth is absorbing more sunlight as well as heat trapped by greenhouse gases.