By now, most people are well aware that 2023 was the hottest year on record, coming in at 1.48 C warmer than the pre-industrial average from 1850-1900. This beat out 2016’s record of 1.25 C.
In climate terms, an increase in warming by 0.23 C is considerable and climate scientists are still trying to figure out why it happened.
Was 2023 just a big blip on the upward trend of global warming? Perhaps. Scientists are trying to tease out all the potential contributors.
But one of the things that is inarguably a contributor is the continued warming of our oceans
Last year, our oceans were the
