Global Warming

Ocean Warming

Earth’s oceans were the hottest ever recorded last year as those waters continued to store more excess heat brought on by human-caused climate change. t was the fourth consecutive year that records for ocean warmth were set since records began in the 1950s. While the atmosphere and oceans have both warmed for decades, the air has not set records every year, with 2022 being the fifth-hottest.

But the warming of the upper 6,600 feet of the oceans has been more consistent since the oceans do not radiate the excess heat into space nearly as easily as the atmosphere.

Writing in the journal Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, researchers say the heating of the oceans and the resulting extreme weather will increase until humanity reaches net-zero emissions.

Exxon Mobil Prediction Global Warming in the 1970's

In the late 1970s, scientists at Exxon fitted one of the company’s supertankers with state-of-the-art equipment to measure carbon dioxide in the ocean and in the air, an early example of substantial research the oil giant conducted into the science of climate change.

A new study published Thursday in the journal Science found that over the next decades, Exxon’s scientists made remarkably accurate projections of just how much burning fossil fuels would warm the planet. Their projections were as accurate, and sometimes even more so, as those of independent academic and government models.

Yet for years, the oil giant publicly cast doubt on climate science, and cautioned against any drastic move away from burning fossil fuels, the main driver of climate change. Exxon also ran a public relations program emphasizing uncertainties in the scientific research on global warming.