Heat searing enough to knock out mobile phones. Wildfire smoke that turns the skies an apocalyptic orange. Flash floods submerging towns in upstate New York and Vermont in the United States.
This grim procession of recent disasters is being driven in part by climate change. But there’s one particular facet of global warming that is providing potent fuel to make extreme weather even more intense: record-hot oceans.
Global ocean surface temperatures in June were the highest in 174 years of data, with the emergence…
