{"id":5646,"date":"2026-04-24T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5646"},"modified":"2026-04-25T21:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T21:18:08","slug":"atlantic-current-system-amoc-now-looks-far-more-likely-to-collapse-than-scientists-first-thought","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5646","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic current system AMOC now looks far more likely to collapse than scientists first thought"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN:  https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic current system that keeps Europe&#8217;s climate stable looks more likely to collapse than previously estimated, after new research found climate models showing the worst outcomes best match real-world data<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/atlantic-current-system-now-looks-far-more-likely-to-collapse-than-scientists-previously-thought-1776816796646.webp\" data-image=\"6m128ng3im1f\" alt=\"New research has narrowed uncertainty around a major Atlantic current, showing it has been far more likely to weaken dramatically than earlier projections suggested.\" title=\"New research has narrowed uncertainty around a major Atlantic current, showing it has been far more likely to weaken dramatically than earlier projections suggested.\">New research has narrowed uncertainty around a major Atlantic current, showing it has been far more likely to weaken dramatically than earlier projections suggested.<\/figure>\n<p>There&#8217;s a system of ocean currents in the Atlantic called <strong>the AMOC \u2014 the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation <\/strong>\u2014 and it does more heavy lifting for the global climate than most people realise. Pulling sun-warmed water up from the tropics towards Europe and the Arctic, where it cools and sinks, it forms a deep return current heading back south. <\/p>\n<p>This system has already been shown <strong>to be at its weakest in about 1,600 years because of rising global temperatures<\/strong>, and scientists flagged warning signs of a possible tipping point back in 2021, so it&#8217;s not like this has come out of nowhere.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s changed now, according to fresh research, is that scientists have managed to work out which of the many climate models<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN: https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/ The Atlantic current system that keeps Europe&#8217;s climate stable looks more likely to collapse than previously estimated, after new research found climate models showing the worst outcomes best match real-world data New research has narrowed uncertainty around a major Atlantic current, showing it has been far more likely to weaken dramatically than earlier [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5647,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5648,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5646\/revisions\/5648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}