The Guardian reported on the extinction of marine animals due to ocean heating
The systematic increase in temperature in the world's oceans leads to a reduction in marine populations. This was reported on February 25 by The Guardian newspaper with reference to the Nature Ecology & Evolution study.
"Simply put, the faster the ocean floor heats up, the faster we lose fish stocks," said Shahar Chaikin, an employee of the National Museum of Natural Sciences in Spain and lead author of the study.
He added that on the scale of entire basins, such a change in temperatures "represents a stunning and extremely alarming trend towards a decline in marine life."
The study also showed that marine heat waves lead to a short-term increase in some marine populations, which masks long-term harm from climate change. Nevertheless, fish in cold areas adapt better to these changes than fish in warm areas, but these temporary benefits of cold water mask "widespread losses" due to general ocean warming.
The authors of the article note that marine life is extremely vulnerable to temperature fluctuations caused by atmospheric pollution from oil products. Scientists have repeatedly warned that "every fraction of a degree matters" as temperatures rapidly approach the threshold of 1.5 degrees, the level to which world leaders have promised to limit global warming by the end of the 21st century.
Science X magazine reported on February 20 that rapid warming in the Atlantic Ocean has led to an increase in the temperature of the depths of the Arctic Ocean. The deep waters of the Eurasian Basin (one of the two deep basins of the Arctic) are warming at a rate of 0.020 degrees per decade. Although this does not seem like a big number, the rate of warming is too high to be explained solely by natural geothermal heating, the material noted.
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