The world's oceans are rising in temperature faster than previously believed as they absorb most of the world's growing climate-changing emissions, scientists said Thursday. That is driving sea level rise, as oceans warm and expand, and helping fuel more intense hurricanes and other extreme weather, scientists warn. The warming, measured since 1960, is faster than predicted by scientists in a 2013 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report that looked at ocean warming, according to the study, published this week in the journal Science. The increasing rate of ocean warming "is simply a signature of increasing greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," Cheng said. (NOAA)Because the ocean has large heat capacity it is characterized as a "delayed response" to global warming, which means that the ocean warming could be more serious in the future," the researcher said.

Source: CBC News January 10, 2019 20:13 UTC