We are maybe more familiar with this here in the British Isles as “The Gulf Stream”.  The Gulf Stream is only a part of the AMOC, but it is important to us.

If this circulation fails, which it is on course to do, because of global warming, we are in trouble and so is all the sea life around our shores.  The article is well presented, have a read.

The AMOC is a system of ocean currents that circulates water within the Atlantic Ocean, bringing warm water north and cold water south.

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