The poles get way hotter than they were. The equator doesn't. So what happens is the poles the high latitudes get hotter and hotter and hotter. Our globil ocean goes from some place where you can sail america's cup big boats, to someplace where you would just sit on a raft in a pond. And all beneath you are getting this hotter and hotter swamp. In the past, that's what happened to our oceans. Swamps weren't the little thing behind your house. Swamps became all the ocean,. out of them a lot of other kinds of gas, most dangerously, a hydrogen sulphide. When you do that, you slow on currents. Ocean currents
On this episode, we meet with author and paleobiologist Peter Ward.
Ward helps us catalogue the various risks facing Earth’s oceans, how the Atlantic Ocean’s currents are slowing due to warming, what happened in Earths history when ocean currents stopped, and why a reduction in elephant poaching is contributing to the destruction of coral reefs.
About Peter Ward:
Peter Ward is a Professor of Biology and Earth and Space Sciences at the University of Washington. He is author of over a dozen books on Earth's natural history including On Methuselah's Trail: Living Fossils and the Great Extinctions; Under a Green Sky; and The Medea Hypothesis, 2009, (listed by the New York Times as one of the “100 most important ideas of 2009”). Ward gave a TED talk in 2008 about mass extinctions.
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