Cause of global warming hiatus found deep in the Atlantic Ocean
Thursday, August 21, 2014 - 15:10
in Earth & Climate
Observations show that the heat absent from the Earth's surface for more than a decade is plunging deep in the north and south Atlantic Ocean, and is part of a naturally occurring cycle. Subsurface warming in the ocean explains why global average air temperatures have flatlined since 1999, despite greenhouse gases trapping more solar heat at Earth's surface.