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Here’s what you’ll learn when you read this story: The ocean is doing its best to soak up excess heat caused by greenhouse emissions, but once humanity (hopefully) achieves a net-negative carbon economy, the bill will come due. A new study analyzes what will happen to the planet once it begins cooling after we finally cut off the fossil fuel …

The Southern Ocean has been dutifully gobbling up a century’s worth of carbon dioxide and heat released by human activities, but when we finally let go of our fossil fuel habit, it might come back to haunt us. In a new paper, climate scientists from Germany predict that when we humans eventually stop releasing greenhouse gases into the air, and …