By Jackson Dill and Brandon Miller, CNN

Updated 7:12 AM ET, Tue March 2, 2021

https://www.cnn.com/2021/03/02/world/climate-change-ocean-currents-weakening/index.html

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(CNN)Remember the movie, “The Day After Tomorrow,” in which a catastrophic series of global disasters strike after climate change causes the world’s ocean currents to stop?Well, new research reveals Earth’smajor ocean currents are slowing down, and though the consequences will not be as immediate or dramatic as in the Hollywood fiction, there are real-world impacts for global weather patterns and sea levels.

Cold Atlantic ‘blob’ puzzles scientistsThe slowdown of ocean circulation is directly caused bywarming global temperaturesand has been predicted by climate scientists.”This has been predicted, basically, for decades that this circulation would weaken in response to global warming. And now we have the strongest evidence that this is already happening,” said Stefan Rahmstorf  of Potsdam University who contributed to this research.The…