In that sense, global warming is really ocean warming".
(The rest is due to the thermal expansion of water as the ocean warms).
Ocean warming and acidification add more pressure, bleaching and weakening coral networks.
It turns out models have under-predicted ocean warming over the past few decades.
So what caused Curry to claim that global and ocean warming had 'paused' since 2003?
Dealing with the problem of ocean warming, which is linked to climate change, is harder but not impossible.
Powerful tidal forces caused by the tug of Jupiter's gravity are believed to keep the ocean warm and unfrozen.
What with climate chaos, ocean warming and unemployment, many of us are hanging out at the beach well into October.
The tropics are part of a global trend toward ocean warming that goes hand in hand with atmospheric warming, and warm oceans provide the energy to drive hurricanes.
What happens to global temperature trends when you factor in the potentially confounding influence of ocean warming and cooling cycles?
El Niño is a natural climatic phenomenon that sees equatorial waters in the eastern Pacific ocean warm every few years.
