What an Abandoned Village Taught Me About Climate Change
<p>AMOC stands for Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. It runs up the coast of North America from Florida to Nova Scotia.</p>
<p>You probably know it as the <strong>Gulf Stream</strong>. From Canada it takes a jaunt eastward to brush the southern tip of Greenland and Iceland. Once it hits the Irish coast, it turns south again until it hits the western coast of Africa. It then turns east and plows across the Atlantic towards the U.S. where the whole thing starts over again.</p>
<p>Weather Channel fans know that the Gulf Stream picks up tropical depressions off the coast of Africa. By the time it gets them across the ocean, they’re often hurricanes.</p>
<p>Earlier studies had put the collapse of the AMOC at 2050, or in the next century, putting the issue solidly in the hands of our kids and grandkids. However, this new report suggests that we might actually see the…what did the folks at <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-023-39810-w" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Nature</a> call it?</p>
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