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Oceans Are Heating Up on the Double
2016-02-09 08:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Truthdig: Ocean temperatures first collected during one of the great 19th-century voyages of exploration confirm one of the consequences of climate change: humans have managed to warm even the deepest parts of the ocean. A new study in Nature Climate Change calculates that the amount of heat absorbed by the ocean has doubled in the last 18 years. A third of this heat has collected in the depths at least 700 metres below the waves-and the same region is rapidly getting hotter. Peter Gleckler, a research...
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