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

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Read the article in my above comment. it could throw Europe into another ice age, and cause mass starvation. Not to mention the AMOC feeds plankton which is the basis for all of sea life food-webs and so the ripples of this could be very very vast.

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

Leonard Nimoy was right?!

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

What did he say?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (2 children)

https://youtu.be/NQSBn50o_8M

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

Damn. I guess he was right! Its funny because that channel is filled with climate deniers.