The world’s oceans have reached the highest ever sea surface temperature due to climate change.
This week, the global average daily sea surface temperature reached 20.96 degrees Celsius, the highest ever, media reports said, citing the Copernicus climate modelling service.
Before this, the highest global average daily sea surface temperature was 20.95 degrees Celsius, and was achieved in 2016.
Dr Samantha Burgess from Copernicus said the more people burn fossil fuels, the more excess heat will be taken out by the oceans, and the longer it will take to stabilise them and get them back to where they were.
She also said that the fact the record has been made in August makes her nervous how much warmer the ocean may get between now and next March.
