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A study that has been going on for many years is if global warming is real and how long it will take until the earth becomes uninhabitable from it. One hypothesis suggests that global warming is the result of what's called internal climate variability, or changes in the interactions between the oceans and the atmosphere. In this case, it's suggested, temperatures are rising because they are drawing heat from deep within the oceans. It's believed that focusing on the heat content in the oceans can tell us why more effectively than the temperatures themselves. It's also noted that the oceans store and release nearly 100 times more heat than land surfaces and that nearly 95 percent of the heat added to the environment over the last 50 years has gone into the oceans.

A scientists named Anderson did a study where he calculated the expected increase in ocean heat resulting from the changes in levels of carbon dioxide and other chemicals. Then he compared those numbers with the observed, or measured, increases in ocean heat over the same period-data that's typically collected from the top 700 meters (about 2,300 feet) of oceans across the globe