Ocean heat hit a record high in 2018, the UN said, raising urgent new concerns about the threat global warming is posing to marine life.
File: Last year also saw new heat records for the ocean's upper 2,000 metres, but data for that range only goes back to 2005., the United Nations said, raising urgent new concerns about the threat global warming is posing to marine life.
But the final version of the report highlighted worrying developments in other climate indicators beyond surface temperature.The agency said the UN had data for heat content in the upper 700 metres of the ocean dating back to 1955. About 93 percent of excess heat -- trapped around the Earth by greenhouse gases that come from the burning of fossil fuels -- accumulates in the world's oceans.
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