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Collapse of our ocean system due to climate change
Earth Atmospheric temperature has increase this will be our worst hurricane season ever
The Tropics where we can directly measure the warm of the seawater, it has now generated high salt contents and warmer sea water. This warmer oceanic water flows from the northeast creating the well known Gulf Steam. Many of the tropical storm and deadly hurricane manifest in the warmer sea water in the gulf with the higher tides and warm atoms. This will be the worst hurricanes season ever on plaent earth.
But as the current gains latitude it cools, adding density to waters already laden with salt. By the time it hits Greenland it is dense enough to sink deep beneath the surface. It pushes other submerged water south toward Antarctica, where it mixes with other ocean currents as part of a global system known as the “thermohaline circulation.”
This circulation is at the heart of Earth’s climate system, playing a critical role in redistributing heat and regulating weather patterns around the world.
As long as the necessary temperature and salinity gradients exist, AMOC is self-sustaining, Boers explained. The predictable physics…
