{"id":5903,"date":"2026-05-22T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-22T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5903"},"modified":"2026-05-23T22:28:40","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T22:28:40","slug":"is-the-atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation-weakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/?p=5903","title":{"rendered":"Is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakening?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN:  https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/<\/p>\n<p>A long-held theory hypothesises that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is weakening, but is there any substance to this? New research from SAMS takes a closer look.<\/p>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/is-the-atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation-weakening-1779284328278.webp\" data-image=\"7xglhywgykwt\" alt=\"Is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakening?\" title=\"Is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation weakening?\">A graphic showing the Scotland-Canada Overturning Array (SCOTIA) of observations. Credit: SAMS.<\/figure>\n<p>Oceanographers think the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the large-scale north Atlantic currents that govern our climate, could be weakening because of climate change. <\/p>\n<p>A new study including marine scientists from the Scottish Association for Marine Science (SAMS) has combined data from several sources to find out exactly what\u2019s happening.<\/p>\n<p>A complex conveyor belt regulating the climate<\/p>\n<p>The AMOC is a complex system of ocean currents that acts a bit like a conveyor belt, moving warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic and returning cold, deep water southward. It plays a key role in regulating global climate and distributing heat.<\/p>\n<p>But oceanographers suspect its being disrupted by climate change, a view partly supported by RAPID, a sub-tropical array of moorings in the North Atlantic which has been in place since 2004.<\/p>\n<p>A weakening, or complete collapse, of this system<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ORIGIN: https:\/\/www.yourweather.co.uk\/news\/ A long-held theory hypothesises that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is weakening, but is there any substance to this? New research from SAMS takes a closer look. A graphic showing the Scotland-Canada Overturning Array (SCOTIA) of observations. Credit: SAMS. Oceanographers think the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), the large-scale north Atlantic currents that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5904,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5903","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\/5903","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=5903"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5905,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5903\/revisions\/5905"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5904"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/echoesofthelastmind.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}