Climate Change: What role does the Bering Strait play in moderating global temperatures?

Alaska Dispatch: Alaska's Bering Strait may play a critical role in the regulation of the global climate — including a knack for maintaining the Atlantic Ocean "conveyor belt" that bathes northern Europe in eon-long kisses of sultry currents and warm wet weather. But squeeze shut the 53-mile-wide narrows between the Pacific and Arctic oceans off the western tip of Alaska — something that occurred during the last ice age when continental ice sheets locked up much of the world's fresh water — and the oceanic engine...

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