The world’s oceans in 2017 were the hottest ever recorded, scientists revealed in a new study published on Friday. “As such, the global ocean heat content record robustly represents the signature of global warming.”While ocean temperatures dropped slightly in 2016 because of a massive El Nino effect, the last five years were still the hottest recorded for the world’s oceans. The second hottest ocean year was 2015. According to the study, heat increased in most regions of the world’s oceans. Dr. John Abraham, a professor of thermal sciences writing in The Guardian, compared last year’s ocean heat increase to electricity use in China.

Source: Huffington Post January 27, 2018 15:11 UTC