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Substantial-Pass-992 t1_je7bf6e wrote

Can someone ELI Michael Scott how?

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radleft t1_je7hwsw wrote

Extremely cold/dense water underneath Antarctic's floating/shelf glaciers sinks to the bottom & flows North. The sinking of the water pulls in more water under the glacier, and this interaction drives the system.

The deep cold currents split & keep heading North until they upwell in various places, and this helps to cool the environments in which these events occur.

The sudden collapse of a floating/shelf glacier would instantly shut off the system that keeps the water flowing. The upwelling may occur for a short time after, just from momentum, but the 'pressure' driving the system has been cut off.

The effected environments would suffer rapid heating; with attending biological disasters.

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wordswontcomeout OP t1_je7ca5b wrote

Influx of cold water changes temperature gradients that effect how the current works in moving cold water to hot areas and hot water to cold areas I think.

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PurpleQueenLily t1_je7efks wrote

So we could see, for exemple, Quebec getting the France climate and inversaly?

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Itoucheditfora t1_je8wmyi wrote

I would say more of stagnant movement of waters, death of food cycles and the communities that depend upon them... including commercial businesses.

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MSeanF t1_je7hoox wrote

I think salinity levels also play a part.

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Bomb_Shell14 t1_je7ckkz wrote

So your parents give you a dollar to start a lemonade stand..

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rmoss20 t1_je7l0xu wrote

“This plantation, we're running low on greenbacks. We're having problems paying the people who give us the seeds and the dirt. We can't pay"

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