A big gulf in ocean science threatens to sink the climate change fight

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Comment and Environment

To tackle planetary warming, we indispensable decently grasp what is happening successful the oceans. That is why, astatine COP28, we volition beryllium calling connected satellite leaders to urgently ramp up marine observations, says oceanographer Margaret Leinen

By Margaret Leinen

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An Argo interval being deployed to cod marine information, arsenic portion of the Argo programme.

Humanity has a unsighted spot erstwhile it comes to the relation of the water successful clime change. That is successful portion because, arsenic land-dwellers, we people thin to absorption astir connected terra firma. But it is besides due to the fact that we cognize small astir what is happening beneath the aboveground of the water astatine immoderate infinitesimal owed to a terrible deficiency of observations there.

Satellites situation our satellite and ticker its ambiance and onshore continuously. Every day, this…

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