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Re: Man-made heat put in oceans has doubled since 1997, study finds

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Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> wrote:
> Man-made heat put in oceans has doubled since 1997, study finds
>> http://phys.org/news/2016-01-man-made-oceans.html
> 
> 
>> The amount of man-made heat energy absorbed by the seas has doubled
>> since 1997, a study released Monday showed.
>>
>> Scientists have long known that more than 90 percent of the heat
>> energy from man-made global warming goes into the world's oceans
>> instead of the ground. And they've seen ocean heat content rise in
>> recent years. But the new study, using ocean-observing data that goes
>> back to the British research ship Challenger in the 1870s and
>> including high-tech modern underwater monitors and computer models,
>> tracked how much man-made heat has been buried in the oceans in the
>> past 150 years.
>>
>> The world's oceans absorbed approximately 150 zettajoules of energy
>> from 1865 to 1997, and then absorbed about another 150 in the next 18
>> years, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature
>> Climate Change.
 
 
The ocean ate my warming.
 
 

-- 
Jim Pennino

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Man-made heat put in oceans has doubled since 1997, study finds Sam Wormley <swormley1@gmail.com> - 2016-01-18 11:24 -0600
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