The Earth’s oceans lock away atmospheric carbon dioxide, but a ‘leak’ in the Southern Ocean, which surrounds Antarctica, brings the greenhouse gas back into the atmosphere.
A team of scientists led by Princeton University and the Max Planck Institute for Chemistry looked at concentrations of nitrogen embedded in deep-sea corals and shelled microorganisms called diatoms and foraminifers to identify an increase in Southern Ocean upwelling during the past 11,000 years, which could explain the mysterious warmth of the Holocene period that allowed human populations to flourish.
Mama’s been fartin’ for ELEVEN THOUSAND YEARS !!!! ???