Study says 2023’s ‘crazy’ Atlantic ocean heat was way hotter than expected

ASSOCIATED PRESS • February 27, 2024

Off the charts “crazy” heat in the North Atlantic ocean and record-smashing Antarctic sea ice lows last year are far more severe than what Earth’s supposed to get with current warming levels. They are more like what happens at twice this amount of warming, a new study said. The study’s main author worries that it’s a “harbinger of what’s coming in the next decades.”