Global warming doesn’t only hurt human beings. Ocean wind patterns are shifting due to changes in global climate.

A few months ago, the clear blue Pacific Ocean waters off the coast of Oregon suddenly turned a thick greenish brown. A swell of nutrients produced a bizarre blooming of plankton that reached levels never seen before by scientists. Then the plankton died and sank, causing oxygen levels in the water to plummet to zero.

The living ocean was transformed into a dead zone. Scientists conducted a submarine survey and found only the bodies of crabs and marine worms scattered across the ocean floor. There were no signs of any fish. Nothing had survived the cataclysm.(via)

It seems that the warming oceans are causing a shift in the wind patterns. This warming is caused by human beings and our co2 heavy lifestyle. Seasonal winds affect ocean currents by pushing away surface water, which is then replaced by colder water from below. But warmer land temperatures result in higher pressures and stronger winds, which in turn have an impact on currents. The patterns of these shifts are starting to wildly fluctuate as predicted in global warming climate models. This is the result of over 5 decades of data.

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