Is climate change slowing down the ocean? | Susan Lozier

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🗓️ 21 February 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Ocean waters are constantly on the move, traveling far distances in complex currents that regulate Earth's climate and weather patterns. How might climate change impact this critical system? Oceanographer Susan Lozier dives into the data, which suggests that ocean overturning is slowing down as waters gradually warm — and takes us on board the international effort to track these changes and set us on the right course while we still have time.

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0:10.0	I'm Elise Hugh.
0:12.0	We're about to dive into the vast oceans,
0:14.8	and specifically a natural process
0:16.9	called overturning circulation.
0:19.3	Oceanographer Susan Loeser shares
0:21.2	why overturning is so crucial why it's under threat and what
0:25.1	we're going to have to do about it in her 2023 talk from Ted's countdown
0:28.9	summit after the break.
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