The huge ocean current known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC - not the Gulf Stream!) shifts vast amount of water around the world. But scientists fear that by heating the planet and melting the Greenland ice-sheet, we're already slowing it down, with the risk that it could collapse - a potential tipping point with huge consequences around the world. And a new study (published in 2023) has tried to pin down what could happen, when. So what do we actually known about this current, does it have anything to do with the Gulf Stream, and is there anything we can do to protect ourselves?

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==MORE INFO==

The Study: https://www.nature.com/articles/s4146...
https://revkin.substack.com/p/behind-...
https://www.axios.com/2023/07/25/gulf...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4301...
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php...
https://www.theguardian.com/environme...
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https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/weather-a...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s4301...
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-envi...
https://theconversation.com/the-gulf-...
Difference between AMOC and Gulf Stream:   / 1684468246903132160  

==THANKS==

Input from Dr Laura Jackson and Professor Eleanor Frajka-Williams –   / eleanorfrajka  

Water thrown by Melis Mielchen

==CREDITS==

Geoengineering visuals from Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung
Perpetual Ocean by NASA Goddard
Buoy footage by NOAA
SST simulation from MAGS Videos
AMOC simulation: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center Scientific Visualization Studio The Blue Marble Next Generation data is courtesy of Reto Stockli (NASA/GSFC) and NASA's Earth Observatory.
Heating planet by NASA's Scientific Visualization Studio