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With melting fresh water ice diluting the salination of the ocean have you created helpful models of effects on conveyor belt currents - does it take into effect brine dumping at desalination plants and all the odd pockets of concentrations - v - dilution?
Are you looking at weight distribution on tectonic plates with shifting concentrations of water volumes/densities and potential triggering of plate movements to accomodate changing weight stresses?
Could garbage patch become floating research station utilizing increased area temperatures (due to reflective changes)as part of energy source to run research as problem will only get worse in forseeable future, with no mitigation on horizon?
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