Last year, the world's oceans broke many warming records. Environment reporter James Dinneen went to the world's largest gathering of ocean scientists to find out how bad the situation is and what can be done about it
– and that includes the world’s oceans, where records fell like dominos. Last week, around 5000 scientists gathered in New Orleans for the American Geophysical Union’s biennial Ocean Sciences Meeting.reporter James Dinneen was there to take the temperature of the researchers, who have been watching change after change unfold in the seas. You can hear the segment at around 05:00 in the embedded player or read the transcript below.
England: “It was the first year in all the records where it was hard to find a part of the ocean that wasn’t warmer than average.”Take the mystery of Antarctica’s sea ice cover, which was surprisingly robust until 2016. That year, it dropped drastically. In 2022 it set another record low which was broken again in 2023 when the ice failed to recover in the Antarctic winter.
Enochs: “Some people would look at this and be downtrodden. And I have seen the exact opposite of that I’ve seen people come together and be so motivated to actually do something meaningful, be able to face this head on.”
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