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How Long Can Oceans Continue Absorb Earths Excess Heat?
2015-03-30 15:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: For decades, the earths oceans have soaked up more than nine-tenths of the atmospheres excess heat trapped by greenhouse gas emissions. By stowing that extra energy in their depths, oceans have spared the planet from feeling the full effects of humanitys carbon overindulgence. But as those gases build in the air, an energy overload is rising below the waves. A raft of recent research finds that the ocean has been heating faster and deeper than scientists had previously thought. And there are...
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