Oceans Warming Faster Than They Have Over Past 10,000 Years

A new study finds that the oceans could be holding the missing heat from global warming.  Photo by Alexis DUCLOS/Gamma-Rapho via Getty Images

Greenhouse gas emissions have been rising, but warming has plateaued in recent years. It turns out the heat is likely being absorbed by the ocean depths.

science.time.com - by Bryan Walsh - November 1, 2013

. . . the oceans depths seem to be soaking up the excess heat energy created by the accumulation of greenhouse gases. Researchers led by Yair Rosenthal at Rutgers University reconstructed temperatures in one part of the Pacific Ocean and found that its middle depths have been warming some 15 times faster over the past 60 years than at any other time over the past 10,000 years. It’s as if the oceans have been acting as a battery, absorbing the excess charge created by the greenhouse effect, which leaves less to warm the surface of the planet, where we’d notice it.

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CLICK HERE - RESEARCH STUDY - Pacific Ocean Heat Content During the Past 10,000 Years