A separate study using climate models and a century of ocean surface-temperature data concluded that AMOC weakening began in the mid-20th century and resulted from human-induced climate warming.
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- Ocean Current That Keeps Europe Warm Is Weakening (smithsonianmag.com)
- https://www.nature.com/articles/s41612-021-00182-x (nature.com)
- https://maynoothgeography.wordpress.com/2021/11/19/the-amoc-and-climate-change-dr-levke-caesar/ (maynoothgeography.wordpress.com)
- https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-of-the-atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation-amoc/ (sciencemediacentre.org)
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