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5. Fresh water runoff into oceans could disrupt the salinity of drop off points.

Tue Sep 23, 2025, 06:54 PM

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Warm ocean currents could shut down and not warm the areas far from the Equator. Cold water would not drop deep and up-well near the Equator bringing blessed cooling to the hot regions.
If this shuts off it takes a thousand years or more to regenerate. Before that happens we would see rapid glaciation in the polar regions and blistering heat around the Equator.

https://www.sciencing.com/happens-ocean-currents-stop-8318706/

https://education.nationalgeographic.org/resource/ocean-currents-and-climate/

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