Shifting ocean currents are pushing more and more heat into the Southern Hemisphere’s cooler waters
- Written by: Moninya Roughan, Professor in Oceanography, UNSW Sydney
ShutterstockThe oceans absorb more than 90% of all extra heat trapped by the emissions we’ve produced by burning fossil fuels. This heat is enormous. It’s as if we exploded an atom bomb underwater, every second of every day.
The ocean isn’t warming at the same rate everywhere. We know the heat is concentrated in the fast, narrow...
