Atlantic Conveyor Near Tipping Point as Collapse Risk Rises
TL;DR
Combining real-world ocean observations with climate models, researchers find the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc) is likely to slow by 42-58% by 2100 and is almost certainly headed for collapse, a scenario with potentially drastic impacts on European climate, rainfall across Africa and the Americas, and Atlantic sea levels; the study in Science Advances shows the pessimistic models match observations better, and notes that Greenland meltwater could push the risk even higher.
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- Atlantic exceptionalism in the twentieth century Nature
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