La bomba climática de unos mares extremadamente calientes: “Cada vez hay más papeletas para una dana como la de 2024”
El efecto sobre el océano del calentamiento del planeta y un ‘superNiño’ disparan los riesgos en los próximos meses
Ocean temperatures have entered uncharted territory in recent years due to climate change, but 2026 is leaving scientists baffled by the addition of extreme El Niño effects. After several months of extraordinary marks, on August 22, a new record was set for the highest daily ocean surface temperature since records began: 21.1 degrees.
Never before has the sea water average been this hot, and this alarming development not only poses a grave threat to marine life but also turns the seas into a climate bomb. "We have more and more reasons for Spain to face another grave incident like in 2024," stresses Juan Jesús González Alemán, a meteorologist at Aemet and researcher who has studied how intensifying warming amplified the catastrophic heatwave that claimed over 230 lives.
"It's worrying that more adaptation measures are not being taken to combat these extreme events," he adds.
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