{"id":22248,"date":"2011-06-06T06:09:26","date_gmt":"2011-06-06T04:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetsave.com\/?p=22248"},"modified":"2011-06-06T06:09:26","modified_gmt":"2011-06-06T04:09:26","slug":"ocean-currents-impacted-ancient-global-cooling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetsave.com\/articles\/ocean-currents-impacted-ancient-global-cooling\/","title":{"rendered":"Ocean Currents Impacted Ancient Global Cooling"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_22249\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-22249\" style=\"width: 500px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/600px-Antarctic_Circumpolar_Current.jpg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-22249\" src=\"http:\/\/planetsave.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/600px-Antarctic_Circumpolar_Current.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-22249\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the strongest current system in the world oceans and links the Atlantic, Indian and Pacific basins.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>New research that has been published in the journal <em>Science<\/em> has showed that the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) may have played a key role in shifting the global climate some 38 million years ago, and provides the first clue that the early ACC may have played a critical part in the formation of the current structure of our oceans.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ast-oembed-container \" style=\"height: 100%;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Gdje7T9AXLg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>The research, detailed in the paper \u201cImpact of Antarctic Circumpolar Current development on late Paleogene ocean structure,\u201d and published in the 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