Marine heatwaves are partly to blame for the rise in temperatures, while Euronews.green writes that the Mediterranean Sea had a surface temperature of 28.71 degrees Celsius last week, making this another new record for the region.

A new world record in terms of water temperatures at a global level might have been established at Florida Keys, where the surface temperatures was above 38 degrees Celsius, or similar to a hot tub.

Experts at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) wrote that last Friday the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean might have hit its highest temperature to date and every year, it is warming faster than before.

At the same time, scientists at the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that marine heatwaves have doubled their frequencies between 1982 and 2016 and during that time, they also got more intense, while lasting longer.

The El Niño weather phenomenon is partly to blame for the rise in the temperatures of our oceans, with the current weather event still being weak, according to researchers, which means that its most devastating effects are yet to have been developed.

Dr Samantha Burgess from C3S said that "the more we burn fossil fuels, the more excess heat will be taken out by the oceans, which means the longer it will take to stabilise them and get them back to where they were."

While the oceans technically have the capability to capture carbon emissions and absorb the heat in the atmosphere, by getting warmer, they are less capable of doing this. At the same time, the warming of our oceans has other consequences, such as the melting of the glaciers, but also the fact that some fish and marine life are forced to migrate to colder waters, which disturbs the food chain and ecosystems.