01 · The Library — Climate & Overshoot
The AMOC Is Weakening But It Won't Collapse
A wound that you can see from the coastline is also a refusal to die
Two thousand meters under the sea off the coast of Africa, a yellow float the size of a beach ball waits at the end of a Cinderella sleep. The Discovery sits above it, and scientist Ben Moat watches the water through binoculars, waiting for it to surface. When it does, it will carry two years of measurements from a line of instruments strung across the Atlantic at the latitude of the Canary Islands. That line, RAPID, has been for more than twenty years the closest thing we have to a stethoscope on the largest heat-moving system on Earth.
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