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Up to Half of The World’s Oceans Are Already Affected by Climate Change – ScienceAlert

The world’s oceans have turned into a veritable sponge for our emissions, and new climate models suggest we’ve soaked them right through.

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The world’s oceans have turned into a veritable sponge for our emissions, and new climate models suggest we’ve soaked them right through.
Since the 1950s, our planet’s vast bodies of water have absorbed roughly 93 percent of the energy entering the climate system, and while most of that heating has been observed near the ocean surface, rising temperatures are now permeating even the deepest parts.
Real-world data on the deep ocean is hard to come by, but a new estimate, based on recent measure…

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