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April 12, 2018

Study: Climate Change Is Weakening Gulf Stream Ocean Currents
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In climate news, new research finds the Atlantic Ocean's Gulf Stream
current has weakened dramatically in recent years and could be headed
for a collapse that would bring extreme winters to western Europe while
accelerating sea level rise in the eastern United States. The findings
come in a pair of new reports published in the journal Nature.
Researchers found prevailing ocean currents have weakened by about 15
percent since the mid-20th century, as human-caused climate change added
vast amounts of fresh water to the North Atlantic due to melting ice
from Greenland.


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