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"Over the last 50 years, the oceans have been working in overdrive to slow
global warming, absorbing about 40 percent of our carbon dioxide emissions, and
over 90 percent of the excess heat trapped in the atmosphere.
But as our research published today in
Nature Communications has found, some
oceans work harder than others.
We used a computational global ocean circulation model to examine exactly how
ocean warming has played out over the last 50 years.
And we found the Southern Ocean has dominated the global absorption of heat.
In fact, Southern Ocean heat uptake accounts for almost all the planet's ocean
warming, thereby controlling the rate of climate change.
This Southern Ocean warming and its associated impacts are effectively
irreversible on human time scales, because it takes millennia for heat trapped
deep in the ocean to be released back into the atmosphere.
This means changes happening now will be felt for generations to come – and
those changes are only set to get worse, unless we can stop carbon dioxide
emissions and achieve net zero."
Via Rixty Dixet.
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
