Our planet has seen this before. Its ice has already melted. Water levels have risen. Ocean currents have already stopped. The last time this happened was 13,000 years ago. Humans didn’t study climate back then. Now, everything is coming full-circle.
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What If the Gulf Stream Current Stopped?
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