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NASA: The Thermohaline Circulation (The Great Ocean Conveyor Belt) [720p]

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If thermohaline were to shutdown, oxygen would no longer be circulating in the ocean. On top of the drastic climate changes that would follow, a mass extinction in the ocean would occur. Organisms would die off at alarming rates until there are no living organisms left in the oceans. Once the oceans become a toxic dead zone, anything within a 50 mile radius will die as well and everything will smell like rotten eggs. The shutdown of thermohaline circulation will start a massive domino affect to the extinction of thousands of species.
https://sciblogs.co.nz/hot-topic/2012/03/11/the-five-scariest-things-about-climate-change/

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The release of greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere has contributed to the melting of polar ice caps. This has led to increases levels of freshwater in the ocean. These higher levels of freshwater in the ocean has led to  less dense surface water that no longer sinks: meaning the process of thermohaline circulation is slowing.

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(happens in equatorial ocean because it involves the mix of warm/salty and cold/less salty waters)
-Pacific Ocean
-Indian Ocean
-Major region of North Atlantic Ocean around Greenland, Iceland, and the North Sea

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Definition: "Winds drive ocean currents in the upper 100 meters of the ocean’s surface. However, ocean currents also flow thousands of meters below the surface. These deep-ocean currents are driven by differences in the water’s density, which is controlled by temperature (thermo) and salinity (haline). This process is known as thermohaline circulation."

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https://e360.yale.edu/features/will_climate_change_jam_the_global_ocean_conveyor_belt
-Cooled North America
-Warmer South America
-Indian and Asian monsoon areas dry up
-Amplified North Atlantic storms
-Less plankton and other life in the sea