Scientists who keep an eye on the earth's rising temperature are looking to see what that's doing to the oceans.

NPR: Arctic Freshwater Pouring Into Atlantic, Scientists Say

Recent rises in surface temperature have been pinned on rising levels of greenhouse gases, particularly carbon dioxide.

ECONOMIST: Climate change (I)

This was a disagreement between the temperature trend on the ground, which appeared to be rising, and that further up in the atmosphere, which did not.

ECONOMIST: Changing science