Experts: Global Warming Is Real  Reuters Email 02.18.05  A
parcel of studies looking at the oceans and melting Arctic ice
leave no room for doubt that it is getting warmer, people are to
blame, and the weather is going to suffer, climate experts said
on Thursday.  New computer models that look at ocean
temperatures instead of the atmosphere show the clearest signal
yet that global warming is well underway, said Tim Barnett of
the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.  Speaking at an annual
meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of
Science, Barnett said climate models based on air temperatures
are weak because most of the evidence for global warming is not
even there.  "The real place to look is in the ocean," Barnett
told a news conference.  His team used millions of temperature
readings made by the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration to calculate steady ocean warming.  "The debate
over whether or not there is a global warming signal is now
over, at least for rational people,"