Cold Ocean Current Which Mixed Adriatic & Mediterrenean Stopped Flowing In 2003, Threatens Sea Life

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Climate change has warmed up the Mediterranean Sea and threatens its rich animal and plant life, Italy's Institute of Marine Research (ICRAM) warned in a new report Tuesday. The alarm bell came a day before the start of a national conference on climate change in Rome.

The experts said a cold current emanating from the Gulf of Trieste off northern Italy, which allowed the waters of the Adriatic and the Mediterranean to mix, had vanished since 2003 due to warming. This threatened to turn the Adriatic Sea into a salt lake with no marine life, it said.

The body said the warming of the Mediterranean Sea prevented the mixing of waters and could lead to the disappearance of micro-algae crucial to the marine food chain.

Temperature rises of 0.4 degrees Centigrade could "alter up to 50 percent of the species," it said.

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[GliderGuider]

1. I see a green sky in our future...

The Anoxic Adriatic?

[Bitwit1234]

2. They had a piece on global waring on TV last night

they said that the climate would be altered because of the flow of the ocean etc and that we might experience another ice age before the planet gradually warms up tens of degrees.

[Javaman]

3. And here I'm only packing my summer clothes!!! nt

[silverweb]

4. Here we go.

We knew this was coming and now we know it's already well underway.