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Article: Atlantic Ocean getting warmer
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- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- May 5, 1994
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THE ATLANTIC Ocean is getting warmer in what could be a sign of
global warming due to increasing carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.
But the findings of an international team of oceanographers are
unlikely, as yet, to turn St Ives into St Tropez. The total rise in
temperature measured is about 0.32 degrees over the past 35 years.
Although the difference might seem modest, according to Dr Harry
Bryden, of the James Rennell Centre for Ocean Circulation at
Southampton, "this change is not subtle, it comes right out and
hits you".
The increase, which works out at roughly one degree per century,
is broadly consistent with predictions of the rise in ocean
temperatures due to increasing carbon ...