🔥 Is Climate Change Irreversible? Analyzing Fresh Data from Antarctica

A massive ocean conveyor belt moves warm and cold water across the planet. It warms Europe, cools the tropics, and helps the ocean breathe by absorbing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. Well, this conveyor belt is starting to break down.

And the melting of Antarctica is to blame. Scientists from the Max Planck Society studied what happened to the ocean during the last two major warming periods on Earth (when glaciers retreated).

And the picture is alarming: when Antarctic ice melts, fresh water forms a dense layer on the ocean surface. This layer acts like a lid, preventing water from mixing.

Deep currents slow down, gas exchange with the atmosphere is disrupted, and the climate system begins to malfunction.

Previously, scientists mainly focused on Greenland and the North Atlantic, but now it turns out that Antarctica is just as important a player.
The study is based on the analysis of diatoms—microscopic organisms that have lived in the ocean for millions of years.

Scientists literally 'read' their shells like diaries and learned what the water was like thousands of years ago.

No panic, but let's understand) 😩

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