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Recently, the U.K. Met Office announced a revision to the Hadley Center historical analysis of sea surface temperatures (SST), suggesting that the oceans have warmed about 0.1 degree Celsius more than previously thought. The need for revision arises from the long-recognized problem that in the past sea surface temperatures were measured using a variety of error-prone methods such as using open buckets, lamb's wool–wrapped thermometers, and canvas bags. It was not until the 1990s that oceanographers developed a network of consistent and reliable measurement buoys.
[...] But that's where the good news ends. Because the oceans cover three fifths of the globe, this correction implies that previous estimates of overall global warming have been too low. Moreover it was reported recently that in the one place where it was carefully measured, the underwater melting that is driving disintegration of ice sheets and glaciers is occurring far faster than predicted by theory—as much as two orders of magnitude faster—throwing current model projections of sea level rise further in doubt.
(Score: 1) by khallow on Wednesday August 21 2019, @01:24PM
I guess you need to look a little harder. Note that the fixes for climate change all require changing developed world peoples' behavior. None of the people most concerned about climate change consider adaptation (except to discount it by claiming it's ridiculously expensive) even though it's much less impact on people and their freedom. Nor do they consider a similar forcing of peoples' behavior in the developing world, like China, even thought that would in theory have more impact since there's both more people and more growth in greenhouse gases emissions.