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JEREMY WHITE/THE NEW YORK TIMES

Dec 18, 2021 · 1,200 miles wide, is the Antarctic Circum-polar Current, by far the largest current in the world. It is the world s climate engine, and it has kept the world from warming even more by drawing deep water from the At-lantic, Pacific and Indian oceans, much of which has been submerged for hun-dreds of years, and pulling it to the sur-face.

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