Climate change is causing intense warming of Earth’s oceans more often and for longer, posing big risks to the animals and plants that live there
of high pressure parked over the North Pacific, preventing cooler air from generating storms that might churn up the water. Consequently, the water stratified and an anomalously warm layer settled on the surface.But there is an underlying element making such heat waves more frequent and more intense: climate change.
Much remains unclear about marine heat waves. For example, explains Nicholas Bond, research scientist at the University of Washington and Washington’s state climatologist, there is the question of why so many persist for weeks or months. “There must be something else that's going on that helps maintain them,” he says.
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