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Scientists fear planetary shift as record ocean heat enters second year
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That’s because what they have seen in the oceans so far “doesn’t add up,” Gavin Schmidt, director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, told The Washington Post.
“It could imply that a warming planet is already fundamentally altering how the climate system operates, much sooner than scientists had anticipated,” he wrote in a column in the journal Nature.
Fatal levels of heat hit a largely unspoiled section of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef this month, a repeat of the bleaching and mortality of corals around Florida last year.
Many fish are growing more rapidly at young ages, but then plateauing at smaller sizes, a sign that they aren’t getting enough food or that the heat is stressing their bodies, said Katherine Mills, a senior scientist at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute.
And the eruption of the underwater volcano Hunga Tonga-Hunga Ha’apai near the island nation Tonga in 2022 sent vast amounts of water vapor — a planet-warming greenhouse gas — into the atmosphere.
If record warmth persists even under La Niña conditions, Schmidt wrote, “the world will be in uncharted territory,” with far more uncertainty over its future climate than scientists had previously known.
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