{"id":85753,"date":"2026-08-25T09:12:04","date_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:12:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=85753"},"modified":"2026-08-25T09:12:04","modified_gmt":"2026-08-25T13:12:04","slug":"signs-oceans-may-be-warmer-than-in-a-thousand-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/signs-oceans-may-be-warmer-than-in-a-thousand-years\/","title":{"rendered":"Signs: Oceans May Be Warmer Than In A Thousand Years"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From the Washington Post:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>As a <a class=\"js-itid-click\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/interactive\/2026\/track-how-extreme-this-years-el-nino-could-get\/?itid=sf_climate-environment-climate-lab_toptable_1_0\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/climate-environment\/interactive\/2026\/track-how-extreme-this-years-el-nino-could-get\/?itid=sf_climate-environment-climate-lab_toptable_1_0\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">record-breaking El Ni\u00f1o<\/a> builds in the Pacific and large swaths of the globe\u2019s oceans are affected by marine heat waves, a significant record has fallen. According to data from the <a title=\"https:\/\/pulse.climate.copernicus.eu\/\" href=\"https:\/\/pulse.climate.copernicus.eu\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"\">Copernicus Climate Change Service<\/a>, average global sea surface temperatures have reached a new high, rising to nearly 70 degrees Fahrenheit late last week \u2014 potentially for the first time in millennia. This mark surpassed the previous record set in March 2024.<\/p>\n<div class=\"teaser-content\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body type-text the-7-live-image\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YLHMYI6CIRBP7II5O3ZLRQBSPA\" data-el=\"text\">\u201cAugust 21st likely marked the warmest Sea Surface Temperatures have been for the entire Holocene period, and possibly even as far back as the last Interglacial 125,000 years ago,\u201d\u00a0<a title=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ryankatzrosene\/status\/2091591813396127870?s=20\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ryankatzrosene\/status\/2091591813396127870?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">wrote<\/a>\u00a0University of Ottawa professor Ryan Katz-Rosene on X.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the Washington Post: As a record-breaking El Ni\u00f1o builds in the Pacific and large swaths of the globe\u2019s oceans.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-85753","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85753"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85753\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":85756,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85753\/revisions\/85756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}