Which of the sentences below best expresses the information in the highlighted statement in the passage? The other choices change the meaning or leave out important information.
A.
Global warming on the surface of the planet may have been retarded during the last hundred years because heat in the atmosphere was absorbed by the oceans.
B.
Global warming on the surface of the ocean was greater than it was on the rest of the planet during the past century because of heat in the atmosphere.
C.
Too much heat in the atmosphere has caused global warming on the surface of the planet for the past hundred years in spite of the moderation caused by the oceans.
D.
There is less heat being absorbed by the oceans now than there was a hundred years ago before the atmosphere began to experience global warming.