NOT A GOOD THING
Stat: The ocean keeps smashing records like it’s Caitlin Clark. But unlike Clark’s, we’re not rooting for these ones: For the past year, the ocean has broken a new temperature record every day, CNN reports, based on data from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the University of Maine’s Climate Reanalyzer.
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The unbroken string of daily heat records since last March likely stems from human-caused climate change as well as natural heatwaves and the El Niño phenomenon. Globally, average ocean temps went up 0.25 degrees Celsius in 2023—or about 20 years’ worth of typical warming, an NOAA oceanographer told CNN.
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