Helen Czerski on a 2018 ocean research expedition to the North Pole. MARIO HOPPMANN
We non-scientists have learned much from the scientists who study climate change, and surprises keep coming, this one from physicist Helen Czerski:
The Pacific Ocean, as seen from space. NASA
The Planet’s Big Blue Machine: Why the Ocean Engine Matters
The ocean is an enormous engine, turning heat energy into motion, says physicist Helen Czerski. But human activity is threatening that machine — depriving the seas of oxygen, increasing stratification, and potentially changing the currents that influence global weather.
Photographs of Earth taken by astronauts in space more than half a century ago revealed a blue planet dominated by oceans and billowing with clouds. Continue reading
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