Global warming has tripled the length of marine heat waves since 1940, modeling study finds

A trio of environmental scientists at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas—Universidad de las Islas Baleares, working with a pair of meteorologists from the National Center for Atmospheric Science, at the University of Reading, in the U.K., has found that global warming has led to tripling the length of ocean surface heat waves.