How a Patch of Ocean Helps Keep Europe from Freezing

Climate Central: Climate scientists have been explaining for years that the problem with global warming isn't just warming. It's also about the other changes warming can bring, including heat waves, droughts, rising seas, intense storms and much more. One of the scariest possibilities is that major ocean currents could abruptly stop entirely, plunging areas like Western Europe into an abrupt deep-freeze. It's happened before, tens of thousands of years ago, and while climate experts doubt that it will happen again...

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