Scientists find heat waves at the bottom of the oceans, and this is extremely bad news

Global warming is turning earth's aquarium into a hot tub.

The Blob, not the carnivorous antagonist alien of a 1950 science fiction story, but something much worse, took the headlines between 2013 and 2016 as an extremely devastating sea wave in the northeast Pacific. As the waters on the western coast of the United States warmed, ecosystems were flooded, coral reefs became massively white, and over a million birds were found dead throughout North America.

Now, new studies suggest it may only have been the tip of the iceberg. Not only have NOAA scientists, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, found evidence of sea heat waves at the bottom of the ocean but it seems that these deeper versions have a more disturbing effect than their previously recorded eels - they last longer, can cause more drastic warming, and sometimes, with little or no evidence of warming on the surface.

These influences have the potential to be catastrophic for both marine ecosystems and industry that rely on them. While the world's oceans may not be what comes to mind when we consider the most vulnerable victims of global warming, they are in fact responsible for absorbing about 90 percent of the excess heat generated by man - made carbon emissions.

As such, the ocean is warming faster than the average planet's average, rising at a temperature of about 1.5 °C over the past century with waves of sea heat 50 percent more frequent in the last decade alone.

And with financial losses due only to The Blob, which totals about $200 million according to some estimates, it's no wonder that there's been great interest in monitoring sea heat waves over the last few years, despite mere ecological concerns, but this is the first time scientists have managed to get so deep.