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Posted Mon Jan 4 2016: from Truthout:
Climate Disruption Amplifies Atlantic Currents' Contribution to Sea Level Rise http://apocadocs.com/s.pl?1451924071
Anthropogenic climate disruption (ACD) has progressed to a point where it is, literally, changing one of the most important ocean circulatory currents in the world. In a paper recently published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, NASA researchers confirmed that the circulation of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) is slowing down. In 2009 and 2010 that shifting had already been linked to a sudden and extreme five-inch sea level rise on the East Coast.
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