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It’s Definitive – The Gulf Stream Is Weakening
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my dude this is the very definition of climate change
No its not. And im not denying climate change or anything.
This is a phenomenon that increases climate change, but i saw nothing in the article suggesting this slowdown of the stream was caused by climate change.
For example, if i start a forest fire and a ton of trees are burned, this will increase climate change, but this theoretical forest fire wouldnt have been caused BY climate change - it would have been caused by me.
The abstract strongly suggests "climate change is likely responsible", but i saw nothing in the article supporting that. Maybe i just missed it, but i was quite disappointed.
Of course, all of that northern ice melting and turning into water must have nothing to do with how water moves in oceans.
Probably does - but it was disappointing the article did not give any expert's explanation on the matter. Why is it so wrong to state that those details are missing from the article?
The issue isn't that you stated the details are missing, but how you did it.
Ice from Greenland and Canada is melting and flowing into the northern North Atlantic, slowing down the Gulf Stream. This is quite well known in the climate community, which might be why the article did not explicitly say it.
This is most likely caused by changes in ocean temperatures. Those changes are part of climate change.
Global weather is an extremely complex system. Any change will have knock-on effects on the rest of the system. If the changes are big enough, you start seeing big effects like this.
I'm not sure what your example is meant to show. An ocean-scale current isn't something you can walk up to and mess with. But burning forests is certainly a contributor to climate change, which would be one of the causative factors in ocean warming and currents changing.
Its just a simple example of cause and effect. I am not denying climate change, i just saw no explanation in the article about which parts of climate change diectly contributed to this, which felt very missing considering its in the abstract. This is all i am saying.
Your explanation is true, but i just wanted the details.