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Global Warming Is Breaking The Link Between Two Major Oceans

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"A key finding is that global warming and human emissions are now overwhelming the Pacific's natural influence on the Indian Ocean," climate scientist Caroline Ummenhofer of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) said in a statement.

A new study published in Nature Communications has found that a long-standing connection between Pacific atmospheric circulation and temperatures across the tropical Indian Ocean has broken down dramatically in recent decades.

Looking back through centuries of climate history, the researchers found that the modern shift appears exceptional.

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