FISH BOILED STRAIGHT FROM THE SEA !!!

The ocean surface temperatures in 2023 were “off the charts”, the researchers said. The primary cause was another year of record carbon emissions, assisted by El Niño. Over the whole year, the average temperature was 0.1C above 2022, but in the second half of 2023 the temperature was an “astounding” 0.3C higher. The scientists said the record level of stratification and reduced oxygen in the ocean would have “severe consequences” for ocean plant and animal life. Marine heatwaves struck across the oceans in 2023. A separate report, by the consortium Global Water Monitor (GWM), found some of the worst disasters of 2023 were due to unusually strong cyclones bringing extreme rainfall to Mozambique and Malawi, Myanmar, Greece, Libya, New Zealand and Australia. Prof Albert Van Dijk of GWM said: “We saw cyclones behave in unexpected and deadly ways. The longest-lived cyclone ever recorded battered south-eastern Africa for weeks. Warmer sea temperatures fuelled those freak behaviours, and we can expect to see more of these extreme events going forward.” Abraham said a rapid end to the burning of coal, oil and gas was needed: “If we don’t bend the trajectory of climate change downwards, then we are going to experience more extreme weather, more climate disruption, more climate refugees, more loss of agricultural productivity. We’re going to have costs in dollars and lives from a problem that we could have avoided. And, generally, those least responsible are going to suffer the most, which is a tremendous injustice.”