'We are getting more extreme weather because of the warming oceans and that has tremendous consequences all around the world,' said one scientist.
facing California this week rose to at least 17 and thousands in the state were displaced by mudslides and flooding, scientists from 16 international universities and institutes published a study Wednesday showing that a major driver of extreme weather—the heating of the world's oceans—was worse than ever in 2022.
"Measuring the oceans is the most accurate way of determining how out of balance our planet is," John Abraham, a professor at the University of St. Thomas in Minnesota and one of 24 scientists who authored the study,. "We are getting more extreme weather because of the warming oceans and that has tremendous consequences all around the world."
The oceans absorb more than 90% of excess greenhouse gas emissions that enter the atmosphere largely as a result of fossil fuel extraction, and study co-author Michael Mann of the University of Pennsylvania warned that as long as humans continue extracting fossil fuels, record-breaking ocean heating will remain likely each year.. "Until we reach net zero emissions, that heating will continue, and we'll continue to break ocean heat content records, as we did this year.
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