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Oceans warming faster than expected, set heat record in 2018: scientists

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Oceans warming faster than expected, set heat record in 2018: scientistsNew measurements, aided by an international network of 3,900 floats deployed in the oceans since 2000, showed more warming since 1971 than calculated by the latest U.N. assessment of climate change in 2013, they said. Man-made greenhouse gas emissions are warming the atmosphere, according to the overwhelming majority of climate scientists, and a large part of the heat gets absorbed by the oceans. “Global warming is here, and has major consequences already.