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Average sea surface temperatures topped 21°C for the first time in March. This is not good news. https://phys.org/news/2024...
05:35 PM - Apr 25, 2024
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From the article:

"The changes are happening so fast that we are not able to keep pace with the impact," the executive secretary of UNESCO's intergovernmental oceanographic commission, Vidar Helgesen, told AFP on the sidelines of the three-day "Ocean Decade" conference in Barcelona.
05:36 PM - Apr 25, 2024
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"It calls for a much stronger effort to observe and research in real time and a much closer collaboration between science and policy making," he said, adding that "tackling ocean warming is a burning issue".
05:36 PM - Apr 25, 2024
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The gathering, which ended Friday, brought together around 1,500 scientists and representatives of governments and environmental organizations to discuss protection of oceans.
05:36 PM - Apr 25, 2024
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Oceans cover 70 percent of the planet and have kept the Earth's surface liveable by absorbing 90 percent of the excess heat produced by carbon pollution from human activity since the dawn of the industrial age.
05:36 PM - Apr 25, 2024
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