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And a Wired thought...
Something may be wrong with the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.
The AMOC is the main current system that crisscrosses the ocean. It flows like a big river up, down, and across the two hemispheres.
... the worry is not that the AMOC is on the verge of a complete stop. The fear is that it will cross a pivotal threshold, and then begin a decline that is unstoppable.
At that point, it would take many decades for the currents to grind to a halt. Even so, a shutdown would trigger, as one paper put it, “a profound global-scale reorganization” in Earth’s climate systems.
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