SocraticGadfly: Oceans warming faster than thought

June 19, 2008

Oceans warming faster than thought

The latest worrisome news on the climate change front is now in: Oceans have warmed 50 percent faster over the past 40 years than previously believed.

Higher temperatures, of course, expand the water, in addition to any water level rise from melting glaciers and icebergs with global warming. The new estimates will also affect climate change computer modeling — for the more accurate, but probably not for the more hopeful.

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