Ocean, our top climate regulator, must be stronger part of climate policy

Washington: The German linguist Heinrich Zimmer once described the ocean as limitless and immortal the beginning and end of all things on Earth. Standing on the shores of any ocean, one can easily sense this. Yet, the more we reveal about the myriad processes within the world's oceans, the more we begin to question just how limitless and immortal the ocean truly is. The ocean is one of the Earth's greatest climate regulators. It absorbs almost a third of emitted carbon dioxide and more than 90 per cent of excess heat. But the latest scientific report from the UN's Intergovernmental…