Posted on Oct 10, 2023
Study Finds Gulf Stream is Warming and Shifting Closer to Shore
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A new study published today in Nature Climate Change now documents that over the past 20 years, the Gulf Stream has warmed faster than the global ocean as a whole and has shifted towards the coast. The study, led by Robert Todd, a physical oceanographer at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), relies on over 25,000 temperature and salinity profiles collected between 2001 and 2023.
“The warming we see near the Gulf Stream is due to two combined effects. One is that the ocean is absorbing excess heat from the atmosphere as the climate warms,” said Todd. “The second is that the Gulf Stream itself is gradually shifting towards the coast.”
“The warming we see near the Gulf Stream is due to two combined effects. One is that the ocean is absorbing excess heat from the atmosphere as the climate warms,” said Todd. “The second is that the Gulf Stream itself is gradually shifting towards the coast.”
Study Finds Gulf Stream is Warming and Shifting Closer to Shore
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My first reaction is, climate change is there anything it can't do? My second is they havent a clue why this is happening and had to assign a cause.
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I am undecided on this. I’ve read there have been at least 5 ice ages in the history of earth. After each one the earth entered an interglacial period where warming has occurred before entering the next cooling period. Is what we are experiencing now nature or man made?
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