'I have no doubt a dip in Manatee Bay today would have been a hot tub-like experience, with SSTs near 100✯, and that these waters were some of the hottest ever recorded on Earth,' he said.īuoys nearby have consistently recorded water temperatures in at least the mid-90s for days now.

But even if it's not a world record, he said it would still be a significant marker. There is a possibility that the Manatee Bay buoy's record-holding status could be invalidated because the buoy is near land and the water may have organic matter that contributed to the temperature, Masters said.

That incident, the study says, was also 'associated with heatwave, neap tides, and an extended period of Kous winds which are characterized by high humidity levels and accompanied by large-scale intermittent fish kill incidents that extended the full length of the Kuwait coastline.' The study Masters referenced says the temperature recorded in Kuwait Bay at that time had never been previously recorded. 'But according to a 2020 paper…the world SST record may be 37.6☌ (99.7☏), recorded by the offshore station KISR01 in the middle of Kuwait Bay.' They have the highest biodiversity of any ecosystem globally, and support more than 500 million people worldwide, most of whom are in poor countries.'Official world SST records are not kept,' he said. Warming of 2C is expected to essentially wipe out tropical corals reefs. Some of the most vulnerable ecosystems are the ones used to having a stable temperature year-round, such as species in the tropical oceans. That’s what really worries me – that unseen, silent dying.” But people generally don’t think about marine heatwaves. Heat stress causes dramatic die-offs, such as the 2021 “heat dome” along Canada’s Pacific coast, which killed an estimated 1 billion marine animals.ĭaniela Schmidt, professor of earth sciences at the University of Bristol, said: “We often think about impacts on ecosystems on land because it’s easy to see – the plants wilt and animals get too hot. The climate crisis doesn’t just increase atmospheric heatwaves but oceanic ones too, harming coastal communities and threatening another key food source for humans.

Thousands of dead fish float in the Amshan River in Iraq in July in a disaster thought to be linked to drought.

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