Global CO2 levels increased significantly last year, with warmer oceans absorbing less CO2. Sea surface temperatures have been exceptionally high, aligning with rising CO2 emissions. Climate experts at CERAWeek conference link extreme weather events to climate change impacts, including wildfires, droughts, and heatwaves. The world's oceans are experiencing marine heatwaves at alarming rates, with ~93% affected in 2023 compared to ~55% in the 1980s.
~93% of the World's oceans experienced a marine heatwave in 2023. Orange = Strong and Darkest color = extreme. That is up from ~55% of oceans experiencing a marine heatwave in the 1980s. That figure is the next figure in this thread 1/ https://t.co/hbPpJwcpi2
Current Climate: Big Risks As Oceans Overheat https://t.co/UP4LyqFYQ1
A good article on the impact of climate change on, well, everyone, due to windstorms, fire, and floods. https://t.co/aHes63Sh1p
After a year of unprecedented wildfires, droughts, extreme heat events and a slew of other impactful weather shifts, climate experts on several panels at CERAWeek echoed certainty that on the whole, those changes linked back to climate change. https://t.co/9YibGAp3jC
Sea surface temperatures have been exceptionally high over the past year. Unfortunately this is in-line with the extremes that we expect to see in a world where CO2 emissions continue to rise. This graph shows observed SSTs compared with the latest generation climate models: https://t.co/6vcq6Visb9
CERAWeek energy conference speakers talk risks from climate change-linked extreme weather https://t.co/kE0l24OzSE
Last years global CO2 increase was the highest on record. Worth noting that warmer oceans can absorb less CO2 than cooler oceans, and we currently have the warmest oceans on record. And more atmospheric CO2 makes the atmos warmer, which makes the oceans... https://t.co/9S61EwimYM https://t.co/XDmYpb22OC https://t.co/qBYsGJkFdg