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Reblogged by jsonstein@masto.deoan.org ("Jeff Sonstein"):

kegill ("Kathy E. Gill 🇺🇦") wrote:

“We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years, the first conclusive, unambiguous observational evidence that this ocean current has undergone significant change in the recent past.”

This is bad.

#ClimateChange

https://phys.org/news/2023-09-definitively-gulf-stream-weakening.html

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• The Gulf Stream affects regional weather, climate, and coastal conditions, including European surface air temperature and precipitation, coastal sea level along the Southeastern U.S., and North Atlantic hurricane activity.