Wyatt earp
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I was reading this article because I wanted to know what records we have of the history on the oceans temperture and I couldn't believe what I was reading in Scientific American
Please tell me I am not comprehending this right...
The way I gather the GB ship in 1872 The Challenger sailed the worlds oceans and recorded 260 ocean temperture readings.
Fast forward to 2004 and we start putting temperture reading buoys and Ureka!!! The ocean is warmer by 0.6 degree Celsius on the surface and 0.1 degree Celsius at depth?
No records for over a 100 years and this is science?
135 Years of Records Reveals Deep Ocean Warming - Scientific American
From the link
Her Majesty's Ship Challenger set sail in 1872. Stripped of her guns and outfitted for science, her mission was to sail around the globe sampling as she went.
Among other scientific triumphs, theChallenger gathered the first global set of ocean temperature readings, more than 260 in all. The British expedition measured from the surface to a depth beyond 900 meters.
In 2004 a set of drifting buoys began to make similar measurements. There are now more than 3,000 of these floats bobbing in the world's seas, collecting oceanographic information.
Please tell me I am not comprehending this right...
The way I gather the GB ship in 1872 The Challenger sailed the worlds oceans and recorded 260 ocean temperture readings.
Fast forward to 2004 and we start putting temperture reading buoys and Ureka!!! The ocean is warmer by 0.6 degree Celsius on the surface and 0.1 degree Celsius at depth?
No records for over a 100 years and this is science?
135 Years of Records Reveals Deep Ocean Warming - Scientific American
From the link
Her Majesty's Ship Challenger set sail in 1872. Stripped of her guns and outfitted for science, her mission was to sail around the globe sampling as she went.
Among other scientific triumphs, theChallenger gathered the first global set of ocean temperature readings, more than 260 in all. The British expedition measured from the surface to a depth beyond 900 meters.
In 2004 a set of drifting buoys began to make similar measurements. There are now more than 3,000 of these floats bobbing in the world's seas, collecting oceanographic information.