Six Spongy Sea Creatures Suggest Warming Might Be Worse Than Thought

Since the dawn of the industrial age, our species has warmed the planet by considerably more than today’s most widely accepted estimates imply, according to a team of scientists who have gleaned detailed new information about Earth’s past climate from an unusual source: centuries-old sponges living in the Caribbean Sea.Networks of satellites and sensors have measured the rising temperatures of recent decades with…