The Great Dying was as nasty as it sounds.
Some 250 million years ago, around 95 percent of ocean species vanished during the planet’s largest-known extinction event, also called the Great Permian Extinction.
The culprit is suspected to b…
Category: Oceanography
The oceans, the true keepers of climate change, may meet our grimmest estimates
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Earth, our ocean-dominated world, stores away a vast majority of the planet’s accumulating heat in the seas.
In fact, over 90 percent of the planet’s rising warmth — specifically trapped by human-created greenhouse gas emissions — is absorbed by the deep, salty waters.
For the last half-century, scientists have worked to put a more precise number on just how much heat the oceans take up each year, and for good reason: More heat absorption might provide evidence that our pale blue dot is increasingly sensitive to the heat-trapping carbon amassing in our atmosphere — which is likely at its highest levels in 15 million years. Read more…
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