{"id":6386,"date":"2025-01-08T02:49:38","date_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:49:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=6386"},"modified":"2025-01-08T02:49:38","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T15:49:38","slug":"uruguayan-coast-far-into-the-south-atlantic-heating-up-double-the-global-average-part-6-in-the-rest-of-the-world-is-warming-up-twice-as-fast-as-the-rest-of-the-world-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/?p=6386","title":{"rendered":"Uruguayan coast far into the South Atlantic, heating up double the global average. Part 6 In The Rest Of The World Is Warming Up Twice As Fast As The Rest Of The World."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/national\/climate-environment\/climate-change-world\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/national\/climate-environment\/climate-change-world\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The clam die-off was an alarming marker of a new climate era, an early sign of this coastline\u2019s transformation. Scientists now suspect the event was linked to a gigantic blob of warm water extending from the Uruguayan coast far into the South Atlantic, a blob that has only gotten warmer in the years since.<\/p>\n<p id=\"text-4PIITREBFNBUHP3KS7GKEJLIFU\" class=\"pg-body-copy first-temp\">The mysterious blob covers 130,000 square miles of ocean, an area nearly twice as big as this small country. And it has been heating up extremely rapidly \u2014 by over\u00a0<span data-c=\"2 degrees Celsius\" data-f=\"3.6 degrees Fahrenheit\">2 degrees Celsius<\/span>\u00a0\u2014 or 2C \u2014 over the past century, double the global average. At its center, it\u2019s grown even hotter, warming by as much as\u00a0<span data-c=\"3 degrees Celsius\" data-f=\"5.4 degrees Fahrenheit\">3 degrees Celsius<\/span>, according to one analysis.<\/p>\n<p id=\"text-U3C56AVGDVESLDAIWT6WZKVIIQ\" class=\"pg-body-copy embed-ad-after\">The entire global ocean is warming, but some parts are changing much faster than others \u2014 and the hot spot off Uruguay is one of the fastest. It was\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.researchgate.net\/publication\/253937688_Enhanced_warming_over_the_global_subtropical_western_boundary_currents\">first identified<\/a>\u00a0by scientists in 2012, but it is still poorly understood and has received virtually no public attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/graphics\/2019\/national\/climate-environment\/climate-change-world\/ The clam die-off was an alarming marker of a new climate era, an early sign of this coastline\u2019s transformation. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[737,976,832,831,974,975,62],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6386"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6387,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6386\/revisions\/6387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.realclimaterecords.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}