"Study: Man-Made Heat Put In Oceans Has Doubled Since 1997"

"WASHINGTON — The amount of man-made heat energy absorbed by the seas has doubled since 1997, a study released Monday showed.

Scientists have long known that more than 90 percent of the heat energy from man-made global warming goes into the world's oceans instead of the ground. And they've seen ocean heat content rise in recent years. But the new study, using ocean-observing data that goes back to the British research ship Challenger in the 1870s and including high-tech modern underwater monitors and computer models, tracked how much man-made heat has been buried in the oceans in the past 150 years.

The world's oceans absorbed approximately 150 zettajoules of energy from 1865 to 1997, and then absorbed about another 150 in the next 18 years, according to a study published Monday in the journal Nature Climate Change."

Seth Borenstein reports for the Associated Press January 18, 2016.

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"Oceans Heat Fast, Even With Slower Warming At Earth's Surface" (Reuters)

"Study: Deep Ocean Waters Trapping Vast Store of Heat" (Climate Central)