Antarctic Circumpolar Current Slows
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Antarctic Circumpolar CurrentMailOnline
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Earth's strongest ocean current is slowing down due to climate change
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Antarctic Circumpolar Current ( ACC ) transports 173 million cubic metres of water every second in an unbroken ring around the Antarctic continent.
But new research shows that the ACC could become 20 per cent slower by 2050 thanks to human-caused climate change.
If that were to happen, it could lead to a 'vicious cycle' of rapidly melting ice, rising sea levels and spiralling global temperatures.
The atmosphere currently absorbs more than 90 per cent of the heat trapped in the climate system.
The resulting ' Antarctic bottom water' traps a huge amount of the world's CO2 and heat.
A slowing of the ACC would also accelerate changes to the water cycle, leading to more extreme weather.
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