Oceans Are Absorbing Almost All of the Globe’s Excess Heat

#Oceans Are Absorbing Almost All of the Globe’s Excess Heat - The New York Times
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The oceans act as Earth’s enormous heat sponge, sheltering continents and the people who live on them from atmospheric extremes. The near-surface ocean takes only decades to warm in response to elevated greenhouse gas concentrations, but the deep ocean will take centuries to millenniums, raising sea level all the while. In the meantime, warmer ocean temperatures may also increase the destructive potential of extreme weather, like cyclones and hurricanes.

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Oceans Are Absorbing Almost All of the Globe’s Excess Heat

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Since 1955, more than 90 percent of the excess heat retained by the Earth as a result of increased greenhouse gases has been absorbed by the #oceans, leaving ocean scientists like Eric Leuliette at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration feeling that 90 percent of the #climate change story is being ignored.

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