'Amazing' records in the pipeline, or rather our oceans

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ea temperatures around Australia are posting "amazing" records that climate specialists say signal global records set in 2014 may be broken this year and next.



Professor Andy Pitman,
head of climate research
from the University of
New South Wales.

March sea-surface temperatures in the Coral Sea region off Queensland broke the previous high by 0.12 degrees – a big jump for oceans that are typically more thermally stable than land. Temperatures for the entire Australian ocean region also set new highs for the month, the Bureau of Meteorology said.

Read the story by Peter Hannam in the Melbourne Age: “Record sea-surface temperatures in Pacific point to record warmth in 2015 and 2016”.

 

“The climate is on a performance-enhancing drug and that drug is carbon dioxide” – Professor Andy Pitman.