[ok-sus] Rising ocean temperatures near worst-case predictions

[Shauna Struby]

From: Adam Morton, The Age.com
<http://www.theage.com.au/environment/rising-ocean-temperatures-near-worstca
se-predictions-20090619-cmcs.html>  
Published June 19, 2009 02:16 PM 


Rising ocean temperatures near worst-case predictions


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The ocean is warming about 50 per cent faster than reported two years ago,
according to an update of the latest
<http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40094/print> climate science.

A report compiling research presented at a science congress in Copenhagen in
March says recent observations are near the worst-case predictions of the
2007 report by the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on
<http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40094/print> Climate Change.

In the case of  <http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40094/print>
sea-level rise, it is happening at an even greater rate than projected -
largely due to rising ocean temperatures causing thermal expansion of
seawater.

Released last night at the European Policy Centre in Brussels, the report
says ocean temperatures are a better indicator of
<http://www.enn.com/top_stories/article/40094/print> global warming than air
temperature as the ocean stores more heat and responds more slowly to
change.

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