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A climate-change amplifying mechanism

CNRS, Universités Aix-Marseille 3 et 1, IRD and Collège de France a scientific research group known as CEREGEhave highlighted a feedback mechanism of ocean circulation on the climate which reinforces this heating or cooling. Published in Nature Feb, 22, 2007, this discovery should enable better prediction of the effects of climate change on oceanic circulation.

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