The oceans are now hotter than at any other time in our history.

Especially the Atlantic Ocean has seen a greater increase in temperature in recent years, although the rest are not spared.

Not only is the sea level rising due to climate change, but also another of its consequences is that our oceans are getting warmer, and that is also a problem to take into account.

Specifically, this emerges from a new study published in the magazine Advances in Atmospheric Sciences, noting that our planet’s oceans have experienced another record year in 2021.

With this, all the main bodies of water on our planet have experienced an increase in temperature. This is a very dangerous trend in which the planet has been involved in recent years, because although the hottest year was 2021, the second hottest was 2020 and the third 2019.

“Ocean heat content is rising relentlessly, globally, and is a leading indicator of human-induced climate change”, says Kevin Trenberth, a climate scientist at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Colorado at medium TheGuardian.

This warming of the oceans has consequences on the development of other climatological phenomena that were previously very rare such as mega storms, devastating hurricanes or even major floods.

The effect of this warming has been much more noticeable in the Atlantic Ocean according to the researchers, however the Pacific has also seen its temperature increase, although to a lesser extent.

studio conductor, Michael man, a climate scientist at Pennsylvania State University, concludes that “Until we reach net-zero emissions, that warming will continue and we will continue to break ocean heat content records, as we did this past year.”.