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The bucket effect: a drop in the ocean triggers a cold snap

Posted by John Lampard on Wednesday, 4 June, 2008 to the comment subset

Scientists believe they have accounted for a dip in global ocean temperatures recorded in late 1945, and it was down to the way temperature data was collected, and by whom. US ships recorded the temperature of ocean water as it was drawn into the ship to cool the engine, and it was mainly US data that made up global temperature readings during the early 1940s. British ships took water temperatures by ... Read full entry

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