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Less gloopy oceans will slow climate change

2014-03-22 04:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

New Scientist: Our changing climate will have an unexpected effect: it will make the oceans less thick and viscous. That is good news, as it should make the seas much better at burying atmospheric carbon out of harm's way on the seabed. The effect is big enough to reduce the temperature rise by 8 per cent, says Jan Taucher of the Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research at Kiel, Germany, who claims to be the first to model the change in stickiness. Much of the carbon dioxide we pour into the atmosphere dissolves into...

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