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The oceans are rapidly cooling

06.01.2019

After some study of the oceans, scientists from Woods Hole Oceanic and Harvard universities came to the conclusion that at the moment the weather on the planet is the same as in 1870.

The Pacific Ocean, the waters of which were studied, is characterized by a weak current, so the upper layers of water there sink down only after 200 years. Therefore, the temperature of the water at a depth of about two kilometers allows us to find out how cold it was two centuries ago - at the time when the Little Ice Age ended.

At the moment, the World Ocean is cooling down again: the temperature of the upper layer in the Pacific Ocean has decreased by 0,08 ° C. This process began at the end of the last century. When it will stop, it is impossible to say.

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But in Switzerland, where a farmer tried to take advantage of the Finnish experience, night milk was banned shortly after it appeared on store shelves. The reason is the strict Swiss laws on food, drugs and dietary supplements. A food product cannot be claimed as a remedy for disease or a means of preventing them, and even a mild form of insomnia is considered a disease by law.

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