Today's installment takes its cue from "Scientists uncover deep ocean current near Antarctica" by David Fogarty, Reuters
Current Events
Conveyor belts of ocean current range
Around the Earth to dissipate its heat.
How sensitive are they to climate change?
A deep Antarctic current proves most fleet,
For every second that it passes through,
More than twelve million cubic meters flow,
To swell the northern basins with its blue.
Cold salty water sinks to depths below,
Then shoots toward India and branches out.
Now people from Australia and Japan
Are measuring this underwater route
To gauge effects of climate on its plan.
Our oceanic health may hinge upon
A flow as large as forty Amazons.
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