Hurricanes thrive on water and wind -- specifically, warm ocean temperatures and vapor swirled up into the atmosphere by ocean surface winds.
Great white sharks are attracted to the warm ocean currents along Australia's southern coastline and are a constant concern for divers who work in the sea.
" Since string made possible everything from warm clothing to ocean-going boats, it served as "the unseen weapon that allowed the human race to conquer the earth.
One conduit would push the warm water from the ocean's surface down.
As the ice thins, more solar radiation can enter the ocean and warm the sea water, which will cause icecaps to melt more quickly.
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This study showed that the Western Equatorial region of the Pacific Ocean and the Indian Ocean was as warm, if not warmer, since the end of the last major ice age, approximately 12, 000 years ago.
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Iceland has three different ocean currents surrounding it: the warm southwest current, the mixed north current and the cold east current.
The 20 to 30 year ocean temperature cycles turned back to warm from the late 1970s until the late 1990s, which is the primary reason that global temperatures warmed during this period.
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If some somehow made it to the ocean, they would die in the warm currents thousands of miles from their spawning grounds in the frigid waters of the North Atlantic.
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Warm conditions in the Atlantic and cooler conditions than normal in the Pacific Ocean also have forced the jet stream farther north and created a corridor for newly born hurricanes to move unimpeded from the ocean waters up the Atlantic coast, Liu said.
The direct results of human activities on the ocean and through climate change are causing the blue part of this blue planet to warm, rise, and lose oxygen.
Large fluctuations from warm to cold winters have been the rule for the U.S., as one can see from records kept by the National Ocean and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA. For example, the winters of 1932 and 1934 were as warm as or warmer than the 2011-2012 one and the winter of 1936 was much colder.
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