The Extent of Ocean's Warming Has Been Underestimated

 There have been two Climate Change impacts I have been talking about on this blog for years. One is that we have been underestimating Climate Change (https://motherearthprayers.blogspot.com/search/label/Underestimating%20Climate%20Change)

and that there is a multiplier affect, where the components--rising temperature, air pollution....--interact with each other and magnify their affects.

It seems like less than a year ago it was reported we have been underestimating  rising water temperatures. Well this past week it happened again. An Environmental Research Letters Study found

--Ocean warming 4 times faster than in 1980s — and will likely  accelerate in coming decades.

-- The acceleration in ocean warming is due to climate change and the Earth taking in more energy than it's emitting. 

--the warming ocean trend has picked up in the last 15 years because Earth is absorbing more sunlight as well as heat trapped by greenhouse gases.