Tag: Antarctica

Ocean Currents Are Slowing, With Potentially Devastating Effects

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From WIRED, 8 June 2023: IN THE CRUSHING, cold depths of the oceans, something unimaginably huge flows inexorably, barely a few centimeters per second, along a path it has traveled for millennia. Dense, dark rivers of water toil ceaselessly around the world, making up around 40 percent of the total volume of the deep oceans. … Continue reading Ocean Currents Are Slowing, With Potentially Devastating Effects

Antarctic warming part of longer trend

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From ABC Science Online, News in Science, 23 August 2012: The rapid warming of the Antarctic Peninsula may partly be due to a long-term trend that began long before the Industrial Revolution, according to a team of Australian, British and French researchers. But, they say, warming in the past 100 years has been unusual and, … Continue reading Antarctic warming part of longer trend