Salon: Turns out, the upper layer of the Southern Hemisphere`s oceans has been heating up faster than we thought. A lot faster: according to the new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change, since 1970 it`s been warming about 24 to 58 percent more quickly than models suggested.
The thing that was surprising to me was the magnitude of this underestimation, Paul Durack, an oceanographer with DOEs Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and the study`s lead author, told Science....