Oceans Are Buffers for Climate Change

A major United Nations report released in September noted that while global temperatures have risen each decade since the 1950s, the rate of global warming has slowed. Climate skeptics say this boosts their claim that emissions from power plants, motor vehicles and buildings are not the source of the problem. Climate scientists attribute the cooling to volcanic eruptions, changes in solar intensity and the movement of heat through the ocean. While the ocean is the largest reservoir for ...

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