Scientists have reported that the amount of excess heat buried in the planet’s oceans, a strong marker of climate change, reached a record high in 2022, reflecting more stored heat energy than in any year since reliable measurements were available in the late 1950s.
That eclipsed the ocean heat record set in 2021, which eclipsed the record set in 2020 and the one set in 2019. And it helps to explain a seemingly ever-escalating pattern of extreme weather events of late, many of which are drawing extra fuel from the energy they pull from the oceans.
LINK (via The Washington Post)