{"id":165343,"date":"2023-06-07T17:29:59","date_gmt":"2023-06-07T22:29:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/oceans-warmer-last-month-than-any-may-on-record"},"modified":"2023-06-07T17:29:59","modified_gmt":"2023-06-07T22:29:59","slug":"oceans-warmer-last-month-than-any-may-on-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/06\/oceans-warmer-last-month-than-any-may-on-record","title":{"rendered":"Oceans warmer last month than any May on record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/oceans-warmer-last-month-than-any-may-on-record.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Global oceans were warmer last month than any other May in records stretching back to the 19th century, the European Union\u2019s climate monitoring unit reported Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>Sea temperatures at a depth of about 10 meters were a quarter of a degree Celsius higher than ice-free oceans in May averaged across 1991 to 2020, according to the Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S).<\/p>\n<p>Year-round, long-term trends have added 0.6C to the <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/ocean\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">ocean<\/a>\u2019s surface waters in 40 years, said C3S deputy director Samantha Burgess, noting that April had also seen a new record for heat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global oceans were warmer last month than any other May in records stretching back to the 19th century, the European Union\u2019s climate monitoring unit reported Wednesday. Sea temperatures at a depth of about 10 meters were a quarter of a degree Celsius higher than ice-free oceans in May averaged across 1991 to 2020, according to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":630,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[493,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-165343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-climatology","category-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/630"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=165343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/165343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=165343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=165343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=165343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}