Scientists have long feared that warming could cause a breakdown of ocean circulation in the North Atlantic. But new research finds the real risk lies in Antarctica’s waters, where melting could disrupt currents in the next few decades, with profound impacts on global climate.
Your average person is unaware of the many overlapping cycles, loops, and patterns that make our various environments habitable for humans, plants, and animals. Oceanic currents are a foundational cycle, on which many other things are reliant. This is truly alarming to read.
And yet… If it’s coming, I want to make popcorn and see what happens