Our 'pool of worries' doesn't take in ocean circulation

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orld-scale events, such as climate change, fall well outside the “pool of worries” of most people.

Most find that the relatively complex task of surviving another day in our market driven world – paying the mortgage, the school fees, rates, fuel, buying food and a mass of other things – leaves little room for thinking about seemingly irrelevant things such as the circulation of the world’s oceans.

That change in our oceans brought on by the climate change/global warming dilemma, however, demands our attention.

A story in the Washington Post - “Global warming is now slowing down the circulation of the oceans —with potentially dire consequences” – brings new and discussion about of another potential mega-scale perturbation.