NEWS CENTER MAINE • April 16, 2024
When Dave Reidmiller of the Climate Center at the Gulf of Maine Research Institute in Portland heard the news recently that the ocean had broken temperature records every day for the past year, even he—an expert on the subject—was taken aback. "'Wow' was probably the first reaction," he said. "This was not great news. And secondly, we also kind of expected it. The science has been telling us now for a couple of decades that these trends are continuing." What has surprised even the experts, though, is how quickly and dramatically ocean temperatures are rising.