Oceans Heat Up on Carbon Emissions
Oceans across the world heated
up in 2019 raising the temperature to the highest ever recorded levels in history,
according to data compiled by China's Institute of Atmospheric Physics (IAP).
The warmth of the ocean was
recorded upto a depth of 2,000 metres. The effect of ocean warming was felt in
the form of extreme weather conditions, rise in sea level and threat to marine
life. The study reported in Advances in Atmospheric Sciences said that ocean
temperature was 0.075 celsius hotter than the historical average between 1981
and 2010.
Apart from rising temperature,
the ocean also absorbed 25 Zetta Joules of additional energy in 2019 in
comparison with 2018 data. It may be the equivalent of every person on Earth
running a hundred hair dryers or a hundred microwaves for the entire year,
Michael Mann, director of Penn State's Earth System Sciences was quoted by AFP.
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