WMO warns 'ocean warming at record levels & will continue for hundreds, if not thousands, of years'

Oliver Farry is pleased to welcome Claire Ransom, coordinator of the WMO's State of the Global Climate 2025 report. Ransom warns that the planet is not only warming, but entering a state of energy imbalance. Driven by record concentrations of greenhouse gases, climate change is intensifying across interconnected systems: oceans, cryosphere, and atmosphere. At the heart of this shift is the ocean, now absorbing the vast majority of excess heat. This process is not only accelerating sea-level rise, but committing the Earth to centuries, even millennia, of a planetary shift.