{"666643":{"#nid":"666643","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"The ocean is as important to the climate as the atmosphere","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor Homo sapiens, a dry-land species, discussions of the climate and how it is changing tend to revolve around what is going on in the atmosphere. This is a dangerously parochial attitude, for the atmosphere is but one of two fluid systems circulating above Earth\u2019s solid surface. The other, the ocean, is in many ways the more important of the pair. Ocean circulation redistributes heat and swallows carbon dioxide. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/lozier-dr-susan\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and Dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair of the College of Sciences, spoke about the assumptions many people have about oceans and ocean circulation during the recent \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aaas.org\u0022\u003EAmerican Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS)\u003C\/a\u003E annual meeting. (This story was also covered in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/ocean-important-climate-atmosphere-185439122.html\u0022\u003EYahoo!Finance\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/podcast\/compassion-fatigue-those-who-care-lab-animals-and-straightening-out-ocean-conveyor\u0022\u003EScience\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":"","format":"basic_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EFor Homo sapiens, a dry-land species, discussions of the climate and how it is changing tend to revolve around what is going on in the atmosphere. This is a dangerously parochial attitude, for the atmosphere is but one of two fluid systems circulating above Earth\u2019s solid surface. The other, the ocean, is in many ways the more important of the pair. Ocean circulation redistributes heat and swallows carbon dioxide. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/lozier-dr-susan\u0022\u003ESusan Lozier\u003C\/a\u003E, professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, and Dean and Betsy Middleton and John Clark Sutherland Chair of the College of Sciences, spoke about the assumptions many people have about oceans and ocean circulation during the recent \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.aaas.org\u0022\u003EAmerican Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS)\u003C\/a\u003E annual meeting. (This story was also covered in \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/news\/ocean-important-climate-atmosphere-185439122.html\u0022\u003EYahoo!Finance\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/podcast\/compassion-fatigue-those-who-care-lab-animals-and-straightening-out-ocean-conveyor\u0022\u003EScience\u003C\/a\u003E.)\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"basic_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"34434","created_gmt":"2023-03-17 17:09:59","changed_gmt":"2023-03-22 15:05:56","author":"Renay San Miguel","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"The Economist ","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.economist.com\/science-and-technology\/2023\/03\/08\/the-ocean-is-as-important-to-the-climate-as-the-atmosphere","dateline":{"date":"2023-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2023-03-08T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"180514","name":"Susan Lozier"},{"id":"1629","name":"AAAS"},{"id":"192308","name":"ocean circulation"},{"id":"831","name":"climate change"},{"id":"189856","name":"global ocean conveyor belt"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}