Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening?

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Ocean Heat Has Shattered Records for More Than a Year. What’s Happening?
nytimes.com

“There’s no ambiguity about the data,” said Gavin Schmidt, a climatologist and the director of the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies. “So really, it’s a question of attribution.”

Understanding what specific physical processes are behind these temperature records will help scientists improve their climate models and better predict temperatures in the future.

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