01 · The Library — Climate & Overshoot
A Weakening AMOC Left One Blue Scar On The Map - And Its Consequences Run Pole To Pole
Why the worst climate news of the year is a patch of cold water
Pull up NASA’s temperature map of the last 145 years and the planet glows like a stove ring. The Arctic burns dark red while the oceans simmer in orange. And then, south of Greenland and Iceland, west of the British Isles, there is a patch of blue. One single patch. The only region of the world ocean that has cooled significantly since the 19th century, while everything around it has heated.
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