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It’s Definitive – The Gulf Stream Is Weakening (www.iflscience.com)

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The Gulf Stream plays a significant role in maintaining the climate of the US East Coast and Western Europe. "We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years." The full study is Here

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[–] [email protected] 38 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (30 children)

What will be the consequences to this?

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago (7 children)

Britain and Iceland are utterly fucked.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 1 year ago (1 children)

The good news is that Iceland won't have to go around apologizing for its name anymore.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Greenland still will be inaccurate though, unless the Arctic decides to just melt.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

At this point i would honestly just shrug it off, what else is new lol

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