On a very busy climate-oil-politics day I was able to just squeak in a short print piece last night on a new study in the journal Nature clarifying what’s happening with the oceans in a heating world (the heat held in by a building greenhouse blanket has largely accumulated in the oceans and physics demands that it will eventually add to atmospheric warming).
As you may be aware, those rejecting the enormous body of evidence pointing to a growing human influence on climate had embraced some transitory findings implying that the oceans were cooling.
The study, by Australian and American researchers, reviewed millions of measurements of ocean temperatures
shows that the rate at which seas warmed and rose between 1961 and 2003 was about 50 percent greater than previous estimates
the change in rate is what is important, the experts said, because it implies greater coastal retreats than anticipated last year by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
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