New alarm on the front of climate change: in 2021 the temperatures of the ocean set a new record, reaching the hottest values ever measured for the sixth consecutive year;
the Mediterranean is confirmed as the basin that warms up the fastest.
This was stated by an international study according to which "the variation in the thermal content of the oceans in 2021 is equivalent to the energy that would be obtained by detonating 7 atomic bombs every second for the entire duration of the year".
The research was attended by 23 researchers from 14 institutions (including Ingv and Enea).