Sea temperatures around West Cork have been several degrees above normal for this time of year. While sun lovers may be delighted, our marine life, and those dependent on it, should be worried, writes Vincent O’Shea
BEGINNING at the global level, latest reports from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) highlight very high temperatures on both land and at sea.
Global-mean surface air temperatures for the first half of June 2023 were the highest by a considerable margin for the time of year, in the data record of the European Union’s Copernicus Climate Change Service (C3S). It also reported that the critical ‘1.5°C above pre-industrial levels’ was breached in early June. This comes after one of the warmest May’s on record.
