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      'Thank Your Fossil Fuel Friends': World's Oceans Had Hottest Year on Record in 2022

      "We are getting more extreme weather because of the warming oceans and that has tremendous consequences all around the world," said one scientist.

      Julia Conley
      Jan 11, 2023

      As the death toll from the extreme weather facing California this week rose to at least 17 and thousands in the state were displaced by mudslides and flooding, scientists from 16 international universities and institutes published a study Wednesday showing that a major driver of extreme weather—the heating of the world's oceans—was worse than ever in 2022.

      Experts from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, the National Center for Atmospheric Research, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, and other institutes found that the oceans had their hottest year on record last year. Record-keeping began in 1940 and the planet's oceans have been heating steadily for more than six decades—with the trend accelerating particularly after 1990—but scientists believe the oceans are now the hottest they've been in 1,000 years.

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