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The Atlantic is at risk of circulation collapse – it would mean even greater climate chaos across Europe

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par Robert Marsh, Professor of Oceanography and Climate, University of Southampton

Amid news of lethal heatwaves across the Northern Hemisphere comes the daunting prospect of a climate disaster on an altogether grander scale. New findings published in Nature Communications suggest the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or Amoc, could collapse within the next few decades – maybe even within the next few years – driving European weather to even greater extremes.

The Amoc amounts to a system of currents in the Atlantic that bring warm water northwards where it then cools and sinks.…

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