Posted on 07/02/2026 9:40:43 AM PDT by Libloather
Temperatures on the ocean surface hit a record high in June, European scientists warned Wednesday, fueling fears of more dangerous heat waves this summer and fanning concerns over the escalating global climate crisis.
Two separate services under the European Union’s Copernicus Earth observation program — the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Copernicus Marine Service — announced they had both independently confirmed the record temperatures.
Carlo Buontempo, director of the Copernicus Climate Change Service, warned that the rising temperatures could mark the “beginning of a new phase.”
“With ocean temperatures at these levels and El Niño on the horizon, we are likely to see more temperature records fall in the coming months,” Buontempo said in a statement Wednesday. El Niño is a naturally occurring climate cycle that sees the central and eastern tropical Pacific Ocean become warmer than usual for months at a time.
The world could be heading into “uncharted territory,” Buontempo warned.
According to the Copernicus Climate Change Service and the Copernicus Marine Service, global ocean temperatures outside the polar regions hit record levels on June 21, surpassing levels for the time of the year observed in both 2023 and 2024.
The Copernicus Climate Change Service said temperatures reached 20.86 degrees Celsius (69.54 degrees Fahrenheit) that day, climbing above the 20.83 C (69.49 F) observed in 2023 and 2024.
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Scientific consensus says mass immigration is primary cause of climate change. It’s settled science. Don’t be a denier.
Check those measurements.
Chantal Da Silva typically is on the NBC “white colonialists are evil” beat or the “Israel is committing genocide” beat. How did she end up writing a “Global Warming is going to destroy the world” article??
The world could be heading into “uncharted territory,” Buontempo warned. Haven’t we been there before?
Can someone please note that it’s SUMMMER...
There go my holiday plans.
Ocean surface temperatures hit record high as world enters ‘uncharted territory,’ scientists warn (only 4.59 years left)
On the other hand...
Snow in June? Why Winter Storm Warnings Were Issued in 3 U.S. States (6.29.26)
And how long have accurate ocean temperatures even been available for evaluation? Earth is a dynamic planet where the “averages” scientists use to track trends are, at best, incomplete and reflect such a small sampling to skew results.
Can we get to 4.58 years?
Wait, I saw here, just a week or two ago, a report from a Journal of Geophysical Research paper that a huge cold “blob” is in the Atlantic and will cause global cooling. Oh, what to believe? LOL.
I am betting that we make it at least 4.6153 years.
The earth is approximately 4.5 billion years old. Accurate temperature readings only go back a few hundred. When the sensationalist speak of “ on record”, that’s just a very recent and geologically short period of time.
This doesn’t even pass the smell test. 68% of the world’s land mass is in the northern hemisphere. 40% of that hemisphere is land, whereas the southern hemisphere is about 20% land. One would therefore expect the highest overall temps to be just after the winter solstice, not the summer.
I’m girding everything I can find.
Well what about that! Here it is July 2nd in central TX and we have yet to hit 100F. That usually happens about mid June. It has been humid with high wind though. Oh noes! Run and shout, wave your hands in the air like you just don’t care!
Cause we don’t.
Everyone I know has gone to great pains to contain their farts; what more can we do?
They can pump out their Global Warming propaganda all they want. I’m not going to be fooled into thinking Carbon Dioxide is a threat. CO2 is fertilizer for plants and the World is a greener place because of it. Cons never give up the con.
...and when you actually meet these people it is the leading cause of racism!
“mass immigration is primary cause of climate change.”
All this time I thought it was due to Unicorn excrement.
Lol.
“Scientists” these days are just cringe fiction writers.
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