Expert warns of alarming warming in Marmara Sea over 50 years
TEKİRDAĞ
The Marmara Sea is warming at a rate far exceeding the global average, with seawater temperatures surging by 2.5 degrees Celsius over the past five decades, an expert has warned.
“The Aegean and Mediterranean seas have recorded increases of between 1.5 and 2 degrees Celsius above their long-term averages over the past 50 years. The Black Sea has warmed by 1.3 degrees. But the most striking finding is in the Marmara Sea,” said Professor Dr. Lokman Hakan Tecer from Namık Kemal University in the northeastern province of Tekirdağ.
“In the Marmara Sea, average seawater temperatures have increased by a full 2.5 degrees Celsius compared with the long-term average over the past 50 years. This is a dramatic increase,” he explained.
