World's ocean temps are warmest on record

Jeffersons Ghost

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Mon Jun-06-11 10:28 AM
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World's ocean temps are warmest on record

At 62.6 degrees in July, that's a full degree above 20th Century average

WASHINGTON — Steve Kramer spent an hour and a half swimming in the ocean Sunday — in Maine.

The water temperature was 72 degrees — more like Ocean City, Md., this time of year. And Ocean City's water temp hit 88 degrees this week, toasty even by Miami Beach standards.

Kramer, 26, who lives in the seaside town of Scarborough, said it was the first time he's ever swam so long in Maine's coastal waters. "Usually, you're in five minutes and you're out," he said.

It's not just the ocean off the Northeast coast that is super-warm this summer. July was the hottest the world's oceans have been in almost 130 years of record-keeping.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32495552/ns/us_news-environment/t/worlds-ocean-temps-are-warmest-record/

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muriel_volestrangler

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Mon Jun-06-11 10:33 AM
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1. FWIW, this is from 2009

Though I expect the temperatures are a little higher still, by now.

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Jeffersons Ghost

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Mon Jun-06-11 10:45 AM
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2. record breaking heatwave is current news in Alabama this week....

One of the worst (and deadliest) tornadoes in history hit here recently

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rustydog

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Mon Jun-06-11 10:56 AM
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3. I don't lose sleep over this, but what if we are past the point-of-no-return?

food supply for sea life dies off and sea life dies off. Sea life dies off, human life dies off.

How do we reverse what greed wrought?

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Javaman

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Mon Jun-06-11 11:07 AM
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4. Oh pashaw...

we had 100 degree days in May...

IN MAY!!!

Nope, no climate change here. move along.

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Mon Jun-06-11 11:09 AM
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5. could mean a nastier than normal hurricane season this year.

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Jeffersons Ghost

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Mon Jun-06-11 11:50 AM
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6. I'm hooked on a feeling....

How many of you are "hooked" on the feeling that we're undergoing world-wide climate change? In better news, fishing has been pretty good lately.

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