The Role of the Southern Ocean and the Arctic in Climate Change

Once you've worked out what's going out of the poles, that affects the rest of the planet as well, doesn't it? Absolutely. So when I was talking about those waters descending into the deep parts of both the Arctic and the Southern Ocean, what they do then is they travel back in the deep part of the ocean to the global ocean. They have a number of roles in carbon in nutrients and in ocean heat and currents. And that actually, this sort of conveyor belt of the currents as they go through the oceans is a really important process That drives a lot of the features that we see of the world's oceans. We think our role is to provide the evidence for policy