Climate Fact Of The Day – ‘Global warming started over 100 years ago’: New temperature comparisons using ocean-going robots suggest climate change began much earlier than previously thought

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Climate Fact Of The Day – ‘Global warming started over 100 years ago’: New temperature comparisons using ocean-going robots suggest climate change began much earlier than previously thought

International Business Times – Modern researchers traced the path of a 19th-century sailing ship in order to compare ocean temperatures over the past century and found that the water started getting hotter much earlier than previously expected. A team led by researchers from the Scripps Institution of Oceanography at the University of California San Diego compared temperature data from a fleet of robots employed by the Argo ocean-monitoring program. They compared these results to temperature records taken by British scientists during the voyage of the HMS Challenger in the 1870s.The found that the temperature of ocean waters from the surface down to 700 meters (2,300 feet) increased by an average of .33 degrees Celsius, or about a half a degree Fahrenheit, over 135 years. Read Article

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