The global average ocean surface temperature is expected to rise even further in the coming months as El Niño strengthens.
"The fact that we've seen the record now makes me nervous about how much warmer the ocean may get between now and next March," she told the outlet.loop that's developed as fossil fuel emissions have increasingly trapped heat in the atmosphere.
"Warmer sea surface temperatures lead to a warmer atmosphere and more evaporation, and both of these lead to more moisture in the atmosphere which can also lead to more intense rainfall events," Burgess. "And warmer sea surface temperatures may also lead to more energy being available for hurricanes."
"We are seeing changes already in terms of species distributions, prevalence of harmful algae blooms popping up maybe where we would not necessarily expect them, and the species shifting from warmer southern locations up into the colder regions as well which is quite worrying," Helen Findlay, a biological oceanographer at the Plymouth Marine Laboratory in the United Kingdom,"We are also seeing more species coming up from the south, things like European anchovy or recently...
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