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New study improves measurements of the warming oceans
Heating of the oceans is, pardon the pun, a hot subject. There is a broad recognition that the oceans, which absorb approximately 90% of excess greenhouse gas energy, are key not only to how fast the planet will warm, but also how hot it will get in the end. Many recent studies have tried to measure deeper ocean regions or previously uncharted areas in the search for heat. A new study by Lijing Cheng and Jiang Zhu takes a different approach. They ask how large are biases in the estimates...
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Of course the scientific debate on the subject of if human-caused climate change would happen ended about 80 years ago. The scientific debate on the subject of it it was happening ended about 50 years ago. The scientific debate on the subject of how bad it will be ended about 15 years ago. The scientific debate on how soon the worse effects will happen is still being debated.