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Title: In Hot Water: World's Ocean Temps Warmest Recorded
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Associated Press
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Published: Aug 20, 2009
Author: Associated Press
Post Date: 2009-08-20 15:50:30 by Brian S
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(08-20) 11:00 PDT WASHINGTON, (AP) -- The world's oceans this summer are the warmest on record. The National Climatic Data Center, the government agency that keeps weather records, says the average global ocean temperature in July was 62.6 degrees. That's the hottest since record-keeping began in 1880. The previous record was set in 1998. Meteorologists blame a combination of a natural El Nino weather pattern on top of worsening manmade global warming. The warmer water could add to the melting of sea ice and possibly strengthen some hurricanes. The result has meant lots of swimming at beaches in Maine with pleasant 72-degree water. Ocean temperatures reached 88 degrees as far north as Ocean City, Md., this week. The Gulf of Mexico, where warm water fuels hurricanes, has temperatures dancing around 90. Most of the water in the Northern Hemisphere has been considerably warmer than normal. The Mediterranean is about three degrees warmer than normal. Higher temperatures rule in the Pacific and Indian Oceans. It's most noticeable near the Arctic, where water temperatures are as much as 10 degrees above average. Breaking heat records in water is more ominous as a sign of global warming than breaking temperature marks on land. That's because water takes longer to heat up and doesn't cool off as easily, said climate scientist Andrew Weaver of the University of Victoria in British Columbia. "This is another yet really important indicator of the change that's occurring," Weaver said. Read more: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/08/20/national/a101659D19.DTL#ixzz0OkqRrny0
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#1. To: Brian S (#0)
Central and South Texas would welcome a hurricane or two. The drought of '09 sucks.
Thursday's NASA SpaceWeather site included the following, BLANK SUN: The sun is entering its 41st consecutive day without sunspots. This remarkable string of blank suns shows that we are still in the pits of the deepest solar minimum in a century. If the streak continues for 11 more days, it will match the longest blank spell of the current cycle.
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#5. To: Lod (#1)
The 3300 Argo bathythermograph buoys deployed throughout the world's oceans since late in 2003 have shown a slight cooling of the oceans over the past five years, directly contrary to the official theory that any "global warming" not showing in the atmosphere would definitely show up in the first 400 fathoms of the world's oceans, where at least 80% of any surplus heat would be stored. Source: ARGO project, June 2009. (Reference)
#12. To: sourcery (#5)
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