Will Europe freeze in 2057? This is the scientists’ cry of alarm

Global warming threatens to halt the great ocean current that regulates the world’s climate, with catastrophic consequences

The planet is in danger. Scientists have been warning for years that the large ocean current they call the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a crucial system that transports heat and salt across the oceans and decisively modulates the world’s climate, is slowing. Causes? Global warming and the influx of fresh water into the North Atlantic due to the melting of polar ice.

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