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Why Earth has a stubborn spot that’s cooling

Why Earth has a stubborn spot that's cooling

Earth is relentlessly heating. So it’s strange that there’s a persistent “cold blob” in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean.

The cold blob (aka “warming hole”) is like a glaring pimple, easily apparent on recent NASA surface temperature maps. As a whole, the ocean’s surface has warmed by nearly 2 degrees Fahrenheit (1 degree Celsius) since 1900 as the seas continuously absorb colossal amounts of human-created heat. Yet sea surface temperatures in the North Atlantic warming hole, located below Greenland, have cooled by up to 1.6 degrees F (or 0.9 C) over this period, which then chills the air above this colder patch of ocean.  Read more…

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