Sunday, March 12, 2017

Rate of Ocean Warming Has Nearly Doubled Over Two Decades, Study Says

Click here to access article by Bob Berwyn from Inside Climate News
The rate of ocean warming has nearly doubled since 1992 compared with the previous three decades. And the warming has reached deeper waters, scientists reported Friday.

The findings are important because the world's oceans provide one of the best records of the excess energy trapped on Earth by increased greenhouse gases, largely from the burning of fossil fuels. As the seas heat up from climate change, the water expands and rises, causing coastal flooding and, in Antarctica, ice shelves to disintegrate.
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