Oceans Heating Up 40% Faster Than We Thought

It’s not even the end of January and we’ve been slapped with the environmental truth stick. Following on from some discrepancies between climate models, which projected higher levels of ocean warming and observational data which seemed to show the contrary (lower temperatures), an article has been published in Science stating that our oceans are heating up 40% faster than previously believed. Can you even! That’s a monumental difference.  So it seems that the higher numbers were right! Now, although this gives academics a more sound understanding of climate change as a whole the gravity of it all could spell disaster for marine life and those living on the coast.  Oceans are incredibly important when understanding the implications of global warming, as they can absorb more than 93 percent of the solar energy that becomes trapped by greenhouse gasses. Not to mention, ocean warming can lead to severe consequences such as sea level rise, stronger storms and loss of ocean life. There is one positive, maybe, to this all. That is, wave power increased globally 0.47 percent per year since 1948 due to a changing climate. This is backed up by a study published in “Nature Communication,”  where it stated that a warming […]

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