Earth’s oceans and seas absorb more than 90% of the excess heat generated by greenhouse gas emissions and global warming. This immense absorption acts as a vital climate buffer, preventing much more drastic atmospheric warming. But this has notable consequences for sea surface temperatures, SST.
Increasingly Warmer Seas: the Coming El Niño and Marine Heatwaves
With this in mind, it is clear that this is happening while the tropical waters of the equatorial Pacific continue to warm due to signals of the future El Niño event, which will likely develop at the beginning of the summer of 2026, and the heat stored in subsurface waters is beginning to…
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