If no immediate action is taken to counter the harm, desalination, in combination with climate change, will increase the Gulf’s coastal waters temperature by at least five degrees Fahrenheit across more than 50 percent of the area by 2050, according to a 2021 study published in the Marine Pollution Bulletin on ScienceDirect, a site for peer-reviewed papers.
As it turns out, Earths ecosphere is a close system surrounded by lifeless cold space. One action, begets another equal and opposite reaction. When you reduce the amount of water volume into a system being heated by the sun and underwater thermal vents, that water will get and remain hotter, longer. I mean, who knew, right.