Weekend Video: A key Atlantic current is weakening
Each spring, Greenland’s ice sheet begins to melt, sending fresh water into the North Atlantic. That matters far beyond the Arctic. It interferes with the AMOC, the system of currents that carries warm tropical water north and keeps northwestern Europe far milder than its latitude should allow.
The AMOC has been in the news lately. A run of studies this spring found it weakening faster than earlier models predicted and a collapse later this century is now treated as a serious, if still debated, risk.
In this short piece, DW sits down with Professor Stefan Rahmstorf, who has studied the AMOC longer than almost anyone, to explain what’s happening and why it matters. A clear, level-headed primer on a climate story driven in part by what’s happening on our doorstep.
