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Collapse of Earth's main ocean water circulation system is already happening

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Collapse of Earth's main ocean water circulation system is already happening

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Climate@slrpnk.netEnglish · 1 year ago

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Collapse of Earth's global water circulation system is already happening

AMOC is like a massive ocean circulation conveyor belt that moves warm and cold water around the Atlantic. It's failing, and that's very bad.

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We might be able to mitigate some of the effects of we start removing the actual problems people…granted the solution isn’t exact ‘legal’

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