Corals Reveal Changes in Ocean Circulation, Prove Climate Modelers Correct

Photo via Ohio State University , credit Andrea Grottoli Climate modelers have predicted that a shift in global temperatures will slow the ocean’s natural circulation of warmer waters at the surface and colder waters near the sea floor, and it looks like that is exactly what is happening according to researchers at Ohio State University and the University of Toronto. They’ve found that corals in the western tropical Pacific Ocean, specifically Gorgonians shown above, reveal a shift in thermocline within their layers of growth, similar to how tree trunk rings … Read the full story on TreeHugger

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Corals Reveal Changes in Ocean Circulation, Prove Climate Modelers Correct

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