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More than just climate change is causing the record highs in ocean temperature

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Global temperatures are rising long-term because the burning of fossil fuels adds greenhouse gases, which warm the planet, to the atmosphere. So far, climate change has raised the global average temperature by about 1.2 degrees Celsius, or 2.2 degrees Fahrenheit, above the preindustrial average temperature. And because it takes more energy to heat up water than air, the oceans have absorbed the vast majority of the planet’s warming from greenhouse gases.

But the “massive, massive records” set over the past year are beyond what scientists would expect to see even considering climate change, Schmidt said.

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