Tag: ocean temperatures

• Thursday, November 1st 2018 - 08:36 UTC

  Ocean temperatures have been warming faster than estimated, shows latest scientific report

  

  The world’s oceans may be heating up faster than previously thought — meaning the planet could have even less time to avoid catastrophic global warming than predicted just weeks ago by the United Nation’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

• Thursday, November 14th 2013 - 07:42 UTC

  Manmade global warming is making 2013 the seventh warmest year since 1850

  

  This year is the seventh warmest since records began in 1850 with a trend to weather extremes and the impact of storms such as Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines aggravated by rising sea levels, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) said.

• Monday, October 1st 2012 - 22:27 UTC

  Report says fish species expected to shrink in size because of global warming

  

  Fish species are expected to shrink in size by up to 24% because of global warming, say scientists. Researchers modelled the impact of rising temperatures on more than 600 species between 2001 and 2050.