Warm water. Because thermal transfer to the oceans has been hard to model, climate scientists until recently focused for evidence of global warming on the atmosphere, and failed to find that its higher levels have warmed significantly. This discrepancy cast doubts on the doomsayers’ scenarios. But now a new model can account for the heat absorbed by the world’s oceans. This reveals that the waters of the earth are indeed “the dominant part ofthe Earth’s climate system for storing heat,” according to the NOAA scientist who led the study. The observed rise in the oceans’ temperature over the past four decades ‘matches greenhouse predictions better than the smaller heat sink of the atmosphere’ and ‘adds up to “strongest evidence to date” that humans are causing global warming.’ New Scientist