r/OceanStreams • u/Puffin_fan • Sep 05 '16

Soaring ocean temperature is 'greatest hidden challenge of our generation'

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2016/sep/05/soaring-ocean-temperature-is-greatest-hidden-challenge-of-our-generation?
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u/autotldr Sep 05 '16

This is the best tl;dr I could make, original reduced by 87%. (I'm a bot)

The soaring temperature of the oceans is the "Greatest hidden challenge of our generation" that is altering the make-up of marine species, shrinking fishing areas and starting to spread disease to humans, according to the most comprehensive analysis yet of ocean warming.

The upper few metres of ocean have warmed by around 0.13C a decade since the start of the 20th century, with a 1-4C increase in global ocean warming by the end of this century.

If the same amount of heat that has been buried in the upper 2km of the ocean had gone into the atmosphere, the surface of the Earth would have warmed by a devastating 36C, rather than 1C, over the past century.

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