Peter Franks wrote:
Roger Coppock wrote:
Here, from Hadley Centre, are the global sea surface
temperatures from 1850 to 2006. Please see:

http://members.cox.net/rcoppock/HadSST2gl.jpg

As predicted by Arrhenius over a century ago,
the rate of sea warming is slower than global land
warming. NASA GISS has global land surface
warming at .58K/per century between 1880 and
2006. (Please see:
http://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/tabledata/GLB.Ts.txt)

These data come from:
http://www.cru.uea.ac.uk/cru/data/temperature/

There are no urban centers in the sea, but watch
the fossil fools blame this on UHI anyway.

What is or isn't important about global sea surface temperatures?

"The SST changes primarily have important biological implications for
hospitable/inhospitable conditions for many organisms including species
of plankton, seagrasses, shellfish, fish and mammals. Although the SST
changes are short-lived their ramifications are still not well understood."

http://www.csc.noaa.gov/crs/cohab/hurricane/sst.htm

Doesn't sound like much to me...