Study warns climate-driven collapse of critical ocean current system ‘much closer than we thought’

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Mon, 31/07/2023 - 04:57
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Mon, 31/07/2023 - 04:57
“It is very plausible that we’ve fallen off a cliff already and don’t know it,” said one researcher. The system of Atlantic Ocean currents that drive warm water from the tropics toward Europe is at risk of collapsing in the coming decades, an analysis of 150 years of temperature data published Tuesday concluded. “The Atlantic Continue reading »