{"id":16015,"date":"2018-11-05T23:15:58","date_gmt":"2018-11-06T04:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/?p=16015"},"modified":"2018-11-05T23:15:58","modified_gmt":"2018-11-06T04:15:58","slug":"new-study-shows-oceans-are-warming-much-faster-than-expected","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/2018\/11\/new-study-shows-oceans-are-warming-much-faster-than-expected\/","title":{"rendered":"New study shows oceans are warming much faster than expected"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published recently in the journal <em>Nature<\/em> indicates that the ocean is absorbing heat and getting warmer at a much quicker rate than previously estimated. The study indicates that it could be gaining 60% more energy each year than previously documented. This could mean that global climate models are underestimating how much warming is likely to occur in the future. You can read a news story about it and find a link to a more detailed story at <em>Minnesota Public Radio<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.mprnews.org\/updraft\/2018\/10\/new-study-oceans-are-warming-much-faster-than-previously-thought\/\">here<\/a>. This would have big impacts on how the rate of sea level rise is calculated as well, since about 50% of current sea level rise is due to increases in volume from warmer water (the other half is from melting ice).<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_1600\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1600\" style=\"width: 199px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Sun_over_arctic_ocean.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1600\" src=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Sun_over_arctic_ocean-199x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Sun_over_arctic_ocean-199x300.jpg 199w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Sun_over_arctic_ocean-91x138.jpg 91w, https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/files\/2014\/12\/Sun_over_arctic_ocean.jpg 319w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 199px) 100vw, 199px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1600\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Source: Commons Wikimedia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published recently in the journal Nature indicates that the ocean is absorbing heat and getting warmer at a much quicker rate than previously estimated. The study indicates that it could be gaining 60% more energy each year than previously documented. This could mean that global climate models are underestimating how much warming [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":58,"featured_media":1600,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,16,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16015","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-climate-and-ag-in-the-news","category-climate-science","category-coastal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/58"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16015"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16016,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16015\/revisions\/16016"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1600"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16015"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16015"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/site.extension.uga.edu\/climate\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16015"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}