1.   Scientists take daily measurements to find out if the ocean temperature is increasing.

2.   As this warm water moves, it increases ocean temperatures and can cause storms and flooding around the world.

3.   Additionally, ocean temperatures in the eastern Atlantic Ocean, the breeding ground for the mighty Cape Verde hurricanes, remain cool until mid-August.

4.   Conway emphasized that the West Antarctic Ice Sheet could melt faster if ocean temperatures rise as a result of human-caused climate change.

5.   Coral reefs, which harbor an abundance of marine life, are threatened worldwide from pollution, overfishing and rising ocean temperatures.

6.   El Nino and La Nina are, in fact, opposite ends of the same climate system, a slow, unending dance between ocean temperatures and the atmosphere.

7.   El Nino occurs when trade winds slow in tropical regions of the Pacific Ocean, warming ocean temperatures off the coast of Peru and affecting weather around the world.

8.   For example, ocean temperatures in the past were usually taken by hauling a bucket of seawater up on deck and sticking in a thermometer.

9.   First, natural fluctuations in ocean temperatures reduced the amount of food for the fish, weakening them and making them vulnerable to diseases.

10.   Fortaleza is on the Atlantic but just below the equator and blessed with average ocean temperatures that New Englanders, anyway, generally associate with bathtubs rather than beaches.