The world’s oceans are warmest since records began, fueling fears climate change is SPEEDING UP
- Last year oceans were 0.075C higher than average recorded from 1981 to 2010
- It would take the energy of 3.6billion Hiroshima atom bombs to recreate the rise
- And they found the rate of heating is accelerating – saying it is global warming
Ocean temperatures are at their highest level since records began, a study has warned.
Last year oceans were 0.075C higher than the average temperature recorded over three decades from 1981 to 2010.
It would take the energy of 3.6billion Hiroshima atom bomb explosions to recreate the temperature rise, researchers said.
Last year oceans were 0.075C higher than the average temperature recorded over three decades from 1981 to 2010 (file photo)
It would take the energy of 3.6billion Hiroshima atom bomb explosions to recreate the temperature rise, researchers said (file photo)
And they found the rate of heating is accelerating – saying the findings are a clear measure of how global warming is speeding up because ‘more than 90 per cent’ of heat ends up in the oceans.
The scientists, who examined heat trends dating back to the 1950s, believe the rise has decimated marine life and killed 100million cod.
Writing in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, study author Professor John Abraham, of St Thomas University in the US, said: ‘Global warming is real, and it’s getting worse.
‘This is just the tip of the iceberg for what is to come.’