News now, comments to come

 

I'm just going to get this out and exposed in my blog, and then make extensive comments on how extraordinary and remarkable it is later.

(You can't seriously be thinking what you were just thinking, can you be?)

Mixing of the planet’s ocean waters is slowing down, speeding up global warming, study finds

"The results also suggest a reduced ability of the oceans to act as a massive carbon savings account, otherwise known as a carbon sink. The ocean absorbs huge amounts of carbon dioxide annually, and it is circulated through mixing into the deep ocean, to remain there for decades or longer.

A more divided ocean, with less exchange between layers, means there may be less carbon absorption over longer time periods. This could lead to more carbon dioxide remaining in the atmosphere that will lead to greater and faster global warming."

Now, the article authors may have screwed up the difference between feet and meters, but we've all done that at one time or another, haven't we?

Update on October 4:  I checked, and they didn't screw up.  More later (in another post).