Most people equate global warming with the atmosphere, but detailed mapping shows that many regions of the world’s oceans are heating up, too. Data compiled and plotted by Marinexplore in Sunnyvale, Calif., show that sea-surface temperatures across the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian oceans are up by about 1 degree Celsius and as much as 2 degrees C in certain spots (see map below).
The warming is not uniform, and parts of the Southern Ocean around Antarctica have actually cooled. Temperature changes are more mixed in the Arctic Ocean, up as much as 2 degrees C in some spots and down by 2 degrees C in others.
Roberto De Almeida, an ocean data engineer at Marinexplore, also notes that the Atlantic and Pacific oceans are heating up as deep as 700 meters and beyond. For graphics on that trend, see “Deep Heat Threatens Marine Life” in the April issue of Scientific American.
Changes in Sea-Surface Temperature Since 1900
Source: Marinexplore
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Add CommentHard to take this seriously when they didn't track ocean temperatures all over the globe in 1900. Also, no changes have been tracked in the past 16 years (See latest articles in http://www.globalresearch.ca/global-cooling-is-here/10783). Looks like another attempt to panic folks.....
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDoesn't anybody at SA screen these anonymous trolls?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisLook at the data, or at least look at a picture, willya?
https://www.scientificamerican.com/media/inline/warming-ocean-threatens-sea-life_2.jpg
Please take time out of your busy schedule plotting against the "New World Order" to learn the difference between TEMPERATURE and TEMPERATURE ANOMALY. I am getting tired explaining fundamental climate science topics to the deniers. But I guess trying to participate in a debate when they aren't even armed with the basic facts is the M.O. of a climate denier, right?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisIs allowing the trolls a way of promoting sales of the print version that doesn't include the comments?
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNice! Who wants to swim in cold water anyway? Shrinkage is a major problem.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisNice map. What I found interesting (and scary) was that some of the largest warming occurred in the hurricane-generating regions of the North Atlantic and in the Pacific. I think the east coasts of both regions are in for some serious trouble.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisTo hankroberts and sault,
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisI think expecting people who are probably being paid to disseminate as much anti-science propaganda as possible to actually read the articles they are commenting on is somewhat unreasonable. From what I have seen, they generally do not read past the headline or first few sentences at most. Still, I suppose it is a good fight you are waging. At least you may make someone feel a bit guilty, if such is possible.
Well, I've had zero luck getting them to see what the REAL science on these various subjects is saying. However, I WON'T let them mislead the people that browse over these comments if I can help it!
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisThank you to sault and the other heros who try to counter the deniers.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisGee, but the rest of the world is getting COLDER:
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishttp://freebeacon.com/science-earth-not-warming-over-last-15-years/
Try this one on, hot shot:
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishttp://freebeacon.com/science-earth-not-warming-over-last-15-years/
Yes, may we all worship together in our Church of Ghia, and forever ignore valid science from scientists that do not depend on government grants to survive, like these guys:
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishttp://freebeacon.com/science-earth-not-warming-over-last-15-years/
Oh golly! The terror of Global Warming continues to permeate the planet! Let us worship Mother Ghia, and ignore science we don't like forever:
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thishttp://freebeacon.com/science-earth-not-warming-over-last-15-years/
Get help. Find another religion. Hurry.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisYou first: http://freebeacon.com/science-earth-not-warming-over-last-15-years/
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisWhy are you spamming this thread with the same pro-pollution, nonsensical article over and over again? I guess I'll repost my debunking from another article:
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisPlease don't assume you can spread this climate denier garbage around here and not get called out on it.
"The difficulties in debunking blatant antireality are legion. You can make up any old nonsense and state it in a few seconds, but it takes much longer to show why it’s wrong and how things really are.
Case in point: The claim that there’s been no global warming for the past 16 years. This is blatantly untrue, a ridiculous and obviously false statement. But I see it over and again online, in Op Eds, and in comments to climate change posts.
The bottom line is that temperatures continue to rise, and that human-caused greenhouse gas forcing of the climate has not even slowed, let alone stopped.
I’ll note that climate change deniers are still going on about climate scientists manipulating data. They’re even trying to cast doubt on the measurements showing 2012 is the hottest year on record in the US! Which it was. The irony is rich; it’s a common tactic for deniers to accuse actual scientists of the very tactics the denialists use. It’s a level of chutzpah so high that even Yiddish can’t do it justice.
So let this be clear: There is no scientific controversy over this. Climate change denial is purely, 100 percent made-up political and corporate-sponsored crap. When the loudest voices are fossil-fuel funded think tanks, when they don’t publish in science journals but instead write error-laden op-eds in partisan venues, when they have to manipulate the data to support their point, then what they’re doing isn’t science."
http://www.slate.com/blogs/bad_astronomy/2013/01/14/no_global_warming_for_16_years_debunking_climate_change_denial.html
And please spare us the nonsense from the pro-pollution echo chamber at the Washington "Free" Beacon:
"The Center for American Freedom (CAF) is a Washington based self proclaimed "conservative advocacy group" that publishes through the online news outlet, The Washington Free Beacon. Its stated mission is to "transform conservative ideas into policy."
http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php/Center_for_American_Freedom
Yeah, like a bunch of K Street Corporate lobbyists are going to be truthful about Climate Change. It's almost like you're insulting our intellegence.
You might want to read the original article at the Economist. The link is http://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21574461-climate-may-be-heating-up-less-response-greenhouse-gas-emissions?spc=scode&spv=xm&ah=9d7f7ab945510a56fa6d37c30b6f1709.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisFreeBeacon cherry picked the article. The Economist even though an ardent advocate of free enterprise has for the last several years stated that AGW is real and a very big problem. The article cited by FreeBeacon makes that point yet again, if you would take the time to read it.
http://bobtisdale.wordpress.com/2013/03/11/is-ocean-heat-content-data-all-its-stacked-up-to-be/
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisFluidizer appears to be spamming this thread... posting the same link more than once... looks like black hat SEO. Moderator (if one exists) should probably nix all those extra links.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to this.sault
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisReal science requires debate and discourse as new things are discovered. You seem very dogmatic. For a subject as complex as Climate your response towards any one who disagrees with your dogma, smacks of a Religious fanatic. I believe that the Earth has warmed science 1900 and so has the Oceans we are coming out of the little ice age. No one sane would disagree. This is not the end of the world. There a hundreds of peer reviewed papers confirming the medieval warm period that was around 2degrees C warmer than now. The earth has cooled and warmed and will in the future. In case you didn't know the the UN IPCC models are falling out of confidence. Maybe there are a few things wrong with your dogma that real science should look at. With people like you in control, its hard to disagree and not be afraid of loosing your job. A closed mind is an ignorant one.
Where do you get your information? We have tracked temperatures for decades with the advent of satellites.
Reply | Report Abuse | Link to thisDo you suppose it's better to 'wait and see' like the
weapons issue where enough disaster must occur as the motivation to take it seriously?
I'm always curious as to the thought process concerning these issues. The comments are an endless source of odd surprises in that respect.