{"id":824519,"date":"2026-08-24T19:22:07","date_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:22:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824519\/"},"modified":"2026-08-24T19:22:07","modified_gmt":"2026-08-24T19:22:07","slug":"the-ocean-just-broke-a-temperature-record-that-may-have-stood-for-millennia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/824519\/","title":{"rendered":"The ocean just broke a temperature record that may have stood for millennia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"YLHMYI6CIRBP7II5O3ZLRQBSPA\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">As a <a 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\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" 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\">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.<\/p>\n<p data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"LHV7HCY4LRFYLPM2OVMBNBSJO4\" data-el=\"text\" class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\">According to data from the <a href=\"https:\/\/pulse.climate.copernicus.eu\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_self\" title=\"https:\/\/pulse.climate.copernicus.eu\/\">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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As a record-breaking El Ni\u00f1o builds in the Pacific and large swaths of the globe\u2019s oceans are affected&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":824520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[192,79],"class_list":["post-824519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-environment","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/824520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}