Temperature rise

From 1961 to 2003, the global oceans temperature has rise by 0. 10 ºC from the surface to a depth of 700 m. There is variabiliti both year-to-year and over longer time scale, with global ocena heat content observations showing high ates of warming for 1991 to 2003, but some cooling from 2003 to 2007. The temperature of the antartic southerm Ocean rose by 0.17 ºC (0.31 ºF) between the 1950s and the 1980s, nealy twicw the ratw for the world's oceans as a whole.