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Climate Change is Weakening the Ocean Currents That Shape Weather on Both Sides of the Atlantic

Source
Inside Climate News

Publication Date
2021-02-25

Since the end of the last ice age, a swirling system of ocean-spanning currents has churned consistently in the Atlantic, distributing heat energy along the ocean surface from the tropics toward the poles, with heavy, cold water slowly flowing back toward the equator along the bottom of the sea.

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https://insideclimatenews.org/news/25022021/climate-change-ocean-currents-atlantic/