Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬Chronic #ocean heating fuels ‘staggering’ loss of marine life
#Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade
Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 populations in the northern hemisphere between 1993 and 2021, and isolated the effect of the decadal rate of seabed warming from short shifts such as marine heatwaves. They found the drop in biomass from chronic heating to be as high as 19.8% in a single year.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/chronic-ocean-heating-fuels-staggering-loss-marine-life-study
#climate #climatechange
#Fish levels fall by 7.2% with as little as 0.1C of warming per decade
Researchers examined the year-to-year change of 33,000 populations in the northern hemisphere between 1993 and 2021, and isolated the effect of the decadal rate of seabed warming from short shifts such as marine heatwaves. They found the drop in biomass from chronic heating to be as high as 19.8% in a single year.
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/25/chronic-ocean-heating-fuels-staggering-loss-marine-life-study
#climate #climatechange
