The 2016 Bering Sea heat wave was the warmest on record

By Yereth Rosen, Arctic Now December 27, 2017
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The Bering Sea in 2016 was warmer than at any time in the 35-year record of satellite measurements of sea-surface temperatures, with extraordinary heat that went down to depths of 300 meters below the surface — a condition that almost certainly was the result of anthropogenic climate change, according to a report issued earlier this month by the American Meteorological Society.

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