From bulletin to bulletin, the curve reaches increasingly dizzying heights.
While the air temperature has never been so high in the last three months across the world, the oceans are not to be outdone: they have experienced a new absolute record, all months combined, reveals Copernicus in its latest report monthly published Thursday.
The average sea surface temperature soared to 21.06°C in February, according to data from the European Observatory.
A spectacular increase linked to global warming, but also to the El Niño meteorological phenomenon, now in decline.
This does not however bode well for a fall in the mercury in the months to come.
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