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So we continue to see exceptional temperatures around the world.

And March is the 10th month in a row that has been the warmest month on record for that respective month.

And although a record in isolation often doesn't mean very much because the climate is incredibly variable,

so it has warmer periods, cooler periods, but it's this long-term trend with exceptional records that has us very concerned.

When we combine that with other data sets, then we can go back to 1850, so to this pre-industrial period.

But then we can also combine it with paleoclimate archives, so the resolution and the quality of the archives vary.

But we can say with some confidence that the period that we're living through right now is the warmest that humanity,

has faced in the last 100,000 years or so.

And when we see these record-breaking temperatures, so March was 0.73 degrees above the 30-year average.

And it was 0.1 degrees Celsius above the previous warmest March.

And so seeing records like this month in, month out, really shows us that our climate is changing, is changing rapidly,

and climate change isn't a future problem. It is a problem that we have to face here and now.

It's about climate change not only because we have to go back to the past, right?

If you compare it with when these records came back from caves after the Greatまぁ,

we actually have to bring in a lot more just ambient equipment.

And it's not only the air temperatures that are changing rapidly and showing these records.

It's also ocean temperatures.

And when we turn to the ocean temperatures,

So again, we measure the temperature of the surface of the ocean, and we are seeing records there.

And for the ocean, we've actually seen records for over 12 months in a row.

But what we've seen over the past year is that March 2023 was actually the coolest temperatures that we've seen for the last 12 months.

So we've had record-breaking temperatures in the ocean for over 12 months now.

And we don't know, climate scientists don't know, if this is a blip in the climate data, if it is a phase change in the climate,

if we're reaching tipping points, or if it's just part of the natural variability of the system.

So we know that the ocean has absorbed 90% of the extra heat from climate change, from anthropogenic global warming.

But the concern is that with this increasing temperature, and it's not only an increased temperature in the surface of the ocean,

we only have measurements in the top 2,000 meters of the ocean.

But across the top 2,000 meters,

that part of the ocean is warming as well.

And when we look at this, there are major implications for how the physics, the chemistry, and the biology of the ocean interacts with these warmer temperatures.

So it changes ocean currents, it changes biodiversity, and how successful biodiversity is in different locations.

And it changes the chemistry of the ocean as well,

in that a warmer ocean holds less nutrients,

which means that it's more challenging for some species to grow there.

You also get oxygen minimum zones, which lead to mass fish mortalities.

And then, of course, there's coral bleaching as well.

So this could be a risk factor.

Thank you for watching!