We Now Have Early Warning Signal Of Ocean Current Collapse

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  This week we have news about a much feared tipping point concerning the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation,

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  AMOC.

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  That's the Atlantic conveyor belt that transports warm water from the tropics northward and that helps keep Northern Europe temperate.

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  It's what we've relied on for thousands of years.

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  If this conveyor belt turns off, Northern Europe would be plunged into freezing conditions.

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  It would basically destroy agriculture across most of the continent.

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  It's very bad news.

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  So it's vital that we understand the behaviour of the AMOC and have an early warning of

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  if it's going to collapse so that we can...

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  perhaps do something about it.

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  That's what we're getting into on this episode of The World,

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