World’s oceans are hottest on record for June – El Nino is set to turn up heat even more

SYDNEY: (Jul 3) The world’s oceans are the hottest on record for June, pushing past records set during the 2023–24 El Nino years.

Right now, the average sea surface temperature is just under 21°C across the world’s tropical and temperate oceans. Before widespread industrialisation in 1870, the temperature was about 19.6°C.

That may not sound like a big difference. But heating the world’s oceans this much requires a truly enormous amount of energy. Of all the extra heat trapped by greenhouse gases from burning coal, gas and oil, more than 90 per cent has gone into the world’s oceans.

Source: PTI News

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