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By Andy May The argument about the proper way to estimate error in the European Centre for Medium-Range Weather Forecast (ECMWF) ERA5 weather reanalysis dataset between Nicola Scafetta and Gavin Schmidt has finally been published by Geophysical Research Letters. Schmidt, Jones, and Kennedy’s comment is here (Schmidt, Jones, & Kennedy, 2023), and Scafetta’s response is

The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has declared the Northern Hemisphere summer of 2023 as the hottest ever recorded. August alone was the warmest August ever recorded, with temperatures around 1.5 degrees Celsius higher than pre-industrial averages. Last month was not only the hottest August scientists ever recorded by far with modern equipment, it was also the second hottest month measured, behind only July 2023, WMO and the European climate service Copernicus announced Wednesday.

Coral has been woven into traditions, art and even religion in communities around the world.

A study reveals that extremely high water temperatures can be lethal to fish as they diminish the amount of dissolved oxygen in the sea that they require to survive. Read more here

Forecasters were closely watching Tropical Storm Idalia as it passed Cuba and headed toward exceptionally warm waters in the Gulf of Mexico. The storm was on track to intensify rapidly before making landfall on the Florida Panhandle, possibly as a major hurricane, on Wednesday, Aug. 30. Hurricane scientist Haiyan Jiang of Florida International University explained the conflicting forces of unusually high ocean heat and wind shear, which typically accompanies El Niño climate patterns, that h...

Huge amount of rainfall. thats what this storm -- the real threat that it poses. >> now, is there a difference between the wildfires potentially that devastated maui and the wildfires in the west and what were seeing in canada? is the ocean temperature as warm around hawaii as it is here? >> thats a great question. canada in the summer, youre well into mid latitudes. it tends to get quite dry in western canada. we dont expect that for maui, for the tropical islands of hawaii. its sort of somethi...

Establishing and quantifying regulations for green shipping is turning out to be more complicated than expected.

Australia's Great Barrier Reef could deteriorate if warming ocean temperatures spark another mass coral bleaching event later this year, the country's top marine science body said Wednesday. Marine heatwaves have caused mass coral bleaching on the Great Barrier Reef in 2016, 2017, 2020 and 2022. 

We've collected reporting and insights about what the high ocean temperatures mean for climate change and the species inside.

The temperature of the planet’s oceans rose to new heights this week, setting a new record with no sign of cooling down.