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Why We Are Here => Water Cooler => Topic started by: rcjordan on July 06, 2025, 02:42:55 PM

Title: Southern Ocean current reverses for 1st time; risk of climate collapse
Post by: rcjordan on July 06, 2025, 02:42:55 PM

https://www.intellinews.com/southern-ocean-current-reverses-for-first-time-signalling-risk-of-climate-system-collapse-389540/
Title: Re: Southern Ocean current reverses for 1st time; risk of climate collapse
Post by: rcjordan on July 06, 2025, 05:09:59 PM
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Major reversal in ocean circulation detected in the Southern Ocean, with key climate implications | Institut de Ciències del Mar

https://www.icm.csic.es/en/news/major-reversal-ocean-circulation-detected-southern-ocean-key-climate-implications
Title: Re: Southern Ocean current reverses for 1st time; risk of climate collapse
Post by: rcjordan on July 10, 2025, 10:36:23 AM
Fact Check: Did an Ocean Current Reverse? - Newsweek

https://www.newsweek.com/fact-check-ocean-current-reversal-what-know-2096224
Title: Re: Southern Ocean current reverses for 1st time; risk of climate collapse
Post by: ergophobe on July 10, 2025, 09:42:43 PM
Interesting both for the science and the typically bad way in which it spins.

It seems like saltwater should be heavier both because of the salt and because it's probably a bit warmer than freshly melted water (water is heaviest, i.e. most dense at 4C).

BTW, without this property of water, life as we know it would probably not exist. Unlike most substances, water gets heavier, then gets lighter, then turns to a solid. If not for that, life on earth would be radically different.
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