Transcript:
In 2023, global ocean temperatures reached record highs – then maintained altitude for more than 400 days.
Chris businessman from the University of Reading in the UK said that Elniño is a natural climate model and is just a contributing factor.
Businessman: “Another important factor is that in the long run, the warming of the ocean has been accelerating.”
When the earth receives energy from the sun, some of it is reflected and flees back to space.
But in recent decades, changes in clouds have reduced the level of reflection of the earth.
People have been adding more carbon pollution to the atmosphere. Carbon pollution captures heat like a blanket, so it escapes even less back to space and accumulates more in the ocean.
As a result, the oceans are warming faster and faster, which is a worrying trend.
Businessman: “If the recent observed behavior is to continue moving forward over the next decade or so, then the concern is that this will increase the high-end rising temperatures expected by the climate model. … This could mean that some of the changes we are considering in terms of climate change are getting faster and faster for our tracks, a little faster than we expected.”
So, he said, it is important that the world quickly transitions from fossil fuels.
Report Credit: Chavobart Digital Media
Repost our articles for free under the Creative Commons license, online or in print.
