{"id":36260,"date":"2026-08-19T04:50:48","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:50:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=36260"},"modified":"2026-08-19T04:50:48","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T04:50:48","slug":"climate-change-is-driving-record-heat-in-europes-seas-scientists-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/?p=36260","title":{"rendered":"Climate change is driving record heat in Europe’s seas, scientists say"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Human-caused climate change was the main driver of recent record-breaking sea temperatures around Europe, scientists said on Wednesday, warning of severe consequences for marine ecosystems and coastal \u200bcommunities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Europe’s seas have not escaped the extreme heat that many countries have endured \u200cthis summer. Last month, the average temperature in the Mediterranean was 27 degrees Celsius (81 degrees Fahrenheit), the highest for any July on record, while an offshore buoy near Mallorca recorded 33 C in early August.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Human-caused climate change \u200bhas added about 2 C of warming to the Mediterranean and around 1.4 C to \u200bWestern European seas, according to an analysis by the World Weather Attribution (WWA) \u2060group, which uses peer-reviewed methods to assess global warming’s role in extreme weather events.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“This has the \u200bpotential to completely reshape ecosystems that coastal communities rely on for food and income, and drive \u200bdamaging extreme weather on land too,” said Claire Bergin, a climate scientist at Ireland’s Maynooth University and a co-author of the study.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The analysis found that peak sea temperatures recorded this year in the eastern and western Mediterranean and \u200balong the Bay of Biscay and Iberian coast would have been “virtually impossible” without human-caused climate \u200bchange.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Celtic Sea, off Britain and Ireland, the most extreme temperatures recorded would have been expected only about \u200conce \u2060a century in a world without human-caused climate change, it found.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Hotter seas increase humidity and overnight temperatures in coastal areas and can help fuel intense storms later in the year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Greenhouse gas emissions, mainly from burning fossil fuels, have raised the planet’s average temperature to around 1.4 C above pre-industrial \u200blevels, according to the \u200bWorld Meteorological Organization. This \u2060hotter baseline means the high-pressure atmospheric systems that cause heatwaves can reach higher temperatures.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sea temperature spikes can cause mass die-offs of species such as \u200bcorals and disrupt food supplies for birds and mammals, with knock-on effects \u200bthrough food \u2060chains.

John Bruno, a marine ecologist at the University of North Carolina, said some species were moving north to seek cooler waters, but not all could adapt.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“We are rapidly approaching the absolute biological limits of \u2060adaptation \u200bfor many species,” he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

According to the WWA analysis, about \u200b90% of the Bay of Biscay and 80% of the western Mediterranean have experienced marine heatwave conditions this year. Without \u200bglobal warming, that figure would have been closer to 40%.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Human-caused climate change was the main driver of recent record-breaking sea temperatures around Europe, scientists said on Wednesday, warning of severe consequences for marine ecosystems and coastal \u200bcommunities. Europe’s seas have not escaped the extreme heat that many countries have endured \u200cthis summer. Last month, the average temperature in the Mediterranean was 27 degrees Celsius […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":33213,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2],"tags":[7481,24042,360,28942,29791,33732,9982,28943,33731,33730],"class_list":["post-36260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sample-category","tag-climate-change-2","tag-environment-3","tag-europe-2","tag-heat","tag-heatwave","tag-public-suffering","tag-scientists-2","tag-summer","tag-victim","tag-wildfire-2","post_format-post-format-aside"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36261,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36260\/revisions\/36261"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/33213"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gsrra.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}