While this is bad news for the planet, it's good news for climate change scientists who have — for the last two decades —
puzzled over warming trends in ocean surface temperatures for nearly 20 years.
Pioneering scientist, social activist, humanitarian — Mary - Claire King is also foremost a free spirit who for
over four decades has marched to the beat of her own drummer, animated by the impulse to solve iconic scientific
puzzles, a passion for victims of disease and social injustice, and a
warm humility that belies her profound impacts on science, on medicine, and on society.
We
puzzle over oddities, such as the climate of Europe — which is far
warmer than, by rights, it ought to be.