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From the New York Times, I'm Katrin Benhold.
This is the daily many of the effects of climate change are already with us, heat waves, droughts, wildfires, flooding.
But some of the most alarming consequences are hiding beneath the surface surface of the ocean.
Today, my colleagues David Gallas and Raymond Zhang on just how close we might be to a tipping point.
It's Tuesday, May 7.
David, you've been writing about different aspects of climate change for years and are definitely no stranger to distressing news about a warming planet.
But something about ocean temperatures seems particularly distressing.
What's going on?
Starting last year, scientists started noting something alarming happening in oceans all around the world.
It was warm in the oceans, but it started to get really hot in ways that they had never seen before.
And for the last year plus, I've been checking in with scientists, and they are increasingly concerned, perplexed even with what they're seeing.
And when you say oceans are getting hotter, can you just give me a sense of how much the oceans are warming and how fast?
Well, if you look at a chart that shows, say, the last two or three decades of average sea surface temperatures, you'll see a gradual warming trend.
But starting last March, we didn't see another gradual increase.