Research says climate change in deep oceans to be 7 times faster

Even if greenhouse gases (GHG) emissions were reduced, rates of climate change in the Earth’s sea could be seven times higher than current degrees by the second half of this century, says new research. Varied global heating at variable depths could significantly impact marine wildlife, creating discord as interdependent species are forced to move. Professor Jorge Garcia Molinos, a climate ecologist at Hokkaido University and a co-author of the study claimed, “ our results suggest that deep sea biodiversity is likely to be at greater risk because they are adapted to much more stable thermal environments.” What does the research say? During this recent research, scientists analysed a measure called climate velocity: the speech at which species must move to stay within their ideal temperature range as different ocean layers warm. This study, published in the journal Nature Climate Change, concluded that different parts of the ocean would change at different rates as the extra heat from the increasing levels of GHG moved through huge ocean depths. By the second half of this century, the study discovered, “ a rapid acceleration of climate change exposure throughout the water column.” Also read: A mysterious galaxy formed 1.5 billion years after the Big Bang may change how we look at the universe’s timeline