Sustained

savagemike:

The world’s oceans are warming up and the rise is both significant and real, according to one of the most comprehensive studies into marine temperature data gathered over the past two decades.

Measuring the temperature of the oceans has not been easy, but the scientists behind the latest study believe there is now incontrovertible evidence to show that the top few hundred metres of the sea are warming – and that this temperature rise is consistent with man-made climate change.

In other words, you can expect further bleaching/dying of coral reefs, and increasingly longer & more dangerous hurricane seasons. Also, if the change in temperature affects ocean currents (and I can’t see a way it wouldn’t), it will have a serious affect on climate in places like Europe especially.