EARTH CHANGES

Scientists find dramatic changes in Southern Ocean, fear climate link

Scientists have discovered dramatic changes in the temperature and salinity of deep waters in the Southern Ocean that they warn could have a major impact on global climate.
It's an indication that the deep ocean can respond much more rapidly to changes that are happening near the surface than we believed possible.
The findings added new urgency to the study of climate change, one of the scientists said. "It's another indication that the climate is capable of changing and is changing now," he said.

[The expedition sampled 3000 kilometers of the Southern Ocean basin during an eight-week expedition aboard the Australian Antarctic Division's research ship Aurora Australis.]