There are two new studies out in Nature Climate Change dealing with heat in the oceans. One looks at the upper ocean, while the other examines the deep ocean. Both result from the work of NASA's new Sea Level Change Team, according to the NASA press release.
The deep ocean paper finds that ocean depths are not significant contributors to sea level rise, meaning those waters are not warming much. To deniers, this is "a huge blow" to global warming theory because it contradicts the idea that the deep oceans were responsible for "the pause" or hiding the "missing heat."
This argument would perhaps be more compelling if it weren't for the second study looking at the upper ocean. It finds that the global ocean has absorbed considerably more heat than we thought. It says there has been 24-58 percent more warming in Southern Hemisphere surface waters than accounted for by previous measurements.
The Sydney Morning Herald and Greg Laden have more on the upper ocean study, while Climate Central and BBC cover both studies.