{"id":17484,"date":"2016-02-08T12:58:29","date_gmt":"2016-02-08T17:58:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17484"},"modified":"2016-02-08T12:58:29","modified_gmt":"2016-02-08T17:58:29","slug":"oceans-are-heating-up-at-the-double","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=17484","title":{"rendered":"Oceans are heating up at the double"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"article_title is-main\"><a href=\"http:\/\/climatenewsnetwork.net\/oceans-are-heating-up-at-the-double\/\">Oceans are heating up at the double<\/a><\/h3>\n<h3><a href=\"http:\/\/climatenewsnetwork.net\/oceans-are-heating-up-at-the-double\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"attachment-article-full wp-post-image\" src=\"http:\/\/climatenewsnetwork.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/NEWCROP-HMS_challenger-800x400.jpg\" alt=\"NEWCROP -- HMS_challenger\" width=\"800\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a><\/h3>\n<div class=\"article_summary\">\n<div class=\"article_excerpt\">\n<p>The British survey ship HMS Challenger blazed an oceanic trail a century and a half ago.<br \/>\n<em>Image: William Frederick Mitchell via Wikimedia Commons<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article_content with-sidebar\">\n<div class=\"ssba ssba-wrap\"><strong>Records from a sailing ship\u2019s round-the-world research voyage almost 150 years ago provide further evidence that the Earth is continuing to warm unchecked.<\/strong><\/div>\n<p><em>LONDON, 6 February, 2016<\/em>\u00a0\u2013 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.<\/p>\n<p>A new\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/nclimate\/journal\/vaop\/ncurrent\/full\/nclimate2915.html\" target=\"_blank\">study in Nature Climate Change<\/a>\u00a0calculates 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 \u2212 and the same region is rapidly getting hotter.<\/p>\n<p>Peter Gleckler, a research scientists at the<a href=\"http:\/\/www-pcmdi.llnl.gov\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0Lawrence Livermore Laboratory<\/a>\u00a0in California, and colleagues started with data collected by the world\u2019s first modern oceanographers aboard the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/aquarium.ucsd.edu\/Education\/Learning_Resources\/Challenger\/science.php\" target=\"_blank\">British survey ship HMS Challenger<\/a>\u00a0in 1872-76.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Deep-sea soundings<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Challenger circumnavigated the globe, sailed 70,000 nautical miles (130,000 kilometres), collected 4,700 new species, and made 492 deep-sea soundings and 283 sets of measurements of water temperatures.<\/p>\n<p>With such systematic findings, the American research team could begin to make estimates of how ocean temperatures have changed between 1865 and 2015.<\/p>\n<p>They calculate that, since 1970, around 90% of the Earth\u2019s uptake of heat associated with man-made global warming, as a consequence of greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel combustion, has been absorbed by the oceans.<\/p>\n<p>In effect, they have used the evidence collected from the depths by 19th-century scientists aboard a three-masted, square-rigged wooden ship to settle a 21st-century puzzle: where has the heat from global warming actually gone?<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oceans are heating up at the double The British survey ship HMS Challenger blazed an oceanic trail a century and a half ago. Image: William Frederick Mitchell via Wikimedia Commons Records from a sailing ship\u2019s round-the-world research voyage almost 150 years ago provide further evidence that the Earth is continuing to warm unchecked. 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