by Gloria Dickie
LONDON (Reuters) – Ocean temperatures reached a record high in February, with an average sea surface temperature of 21.06 degrees Celsius, the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S) said on Thursday. European Union.
The average sea surface temperature in February surpassed the previous record of 20.98oC set in August 2023. The record comes as February was the warmest on record globally, compared to the same period the previous years.
Since June, every month has been the warmest on record worldwide, compared to the same period in previous years.
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In addition to human-caused climate disruption, fueling rising temperatures is the El Niño weather phenomenon, which warms surface waters in the eastern Pacific Ocean and contributes to rising global temperatures.
“The most surprising thing is that sea surface temperatures are reaching record levels in regions geographically far from areas where El Nino is observed,” said Richard Allan, a scientist at the University of Reading.
According to him, this indicates the strong influence of increasing greenhouse gas emissions into the atmosphere.
The C3S said the El Nino phenomenon was weakening, but air temperatures over the oceans remained at abnormally high levels.
(French version Camille Raynaud)
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