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Evening Standard
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Nicholas Cecil

Experts raise new fears that ocean temperatures could rise further

Scientists raised the alarm on Friday that record ocean temperatures could rise even higher after a new peak was recorded this week.

The average daily global sea surface temperature hit 20.96C, according to the EU’s Climate Change Service Copernicus, narrowly beating the previous high in March 2016.

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