The world’s oceans reached their highest temperature last year since modern records began more than 60 years ago.
The record was broken for the third year running and scientists attributed the warmth to the sea’s absorption of most of the heating caused by human activity.
John Abraham, an engineering professor at the University of St Thomas in Minnesota and one of the authors of a study on sea temperatures, said that the heat absorbed by the oceans was equivalent to “five Hiroshima bombs . . . every second, day and night, 365 days a year”.
The oceans absorb more than 90 per cent of all the heat added to the atmosphere by human activity. The authors of the study said ocean temperatures were one of…
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