Ocean temperatures spiked in 2013 | Grist
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The mainstream media repeatedly uttered the false but reassuring-sounding phrase “global warming pause” ▻http://grist.org/climate-energy/who-created-the-global-warming-pause last year, a reference to an unexpected decline in the rate at which land temperatures have been recently warming, but meanwhile temperatures in the world’s oceans were spiking.
Just check out this graph from NOAA, which shows the rise in the amount of energy in the top 2,300 feet (700 meters) of the world’s oceans:▻http://grist.files.wordpress.com/2014/02/heat-content-graph.png?w=470&h=315 Long-term the oceans have been gaining heat at a rate equivalent to about 2 Hiroshima bombs per second, although this has increased over the last 16 or so years to around 4 per second. In 2013 ocean warming rapidly escalated, rising to a rate in excess of 12 Hiroshima bombs per second — over three times the recent trend..
