Jessamyn Fairfield

Amok run amok.

Yeah.

It's like, all right, fine.

So this story is about something that we've been hearing more about in recent months and years, the Atlantic meridional overturning current, which is, of course, an intrinsically funny name.

But what it has to do with is in the Atlantic Ocean, warm water flowing sort of to the north in the North Atlantic on the top, the sort of broad, shallow part of the ocean, and then getting cold up north, sinking back down and going back down towards the equator.

Right off the coast of our country.

Right off the coast of our country.

Local story, this.

And it's part of a global network of ocean currents and these kind of conveyor belts that process and effectively move heat through the ocean.

Enormous amounts of heat.

Enormous amounts of water.

But surprisingly quick.

Yeah, exactly.

And so this is a part of how the global climate is constructed from these moving ocean currents.

And where AMOC has been making the news recently is that there are predictions that it is starting to slow down.

So this would have obviously huge implications for us if the flow of hot water through the ocean was to slow down.

I mean, both Ireland specifically and Northern Europe in general, like we have much warmer climates than we

kind of have the right to based on our latitude, which is great in some sense, but it's very much tied to this ocean circulation.

And of course, no surprise here, but the reason for this is climate change.

So in addition to global warming, ocean acidification, all this other really fun stuff that we love to talk about, this potential slowdown and what's more concerning, possible collapse of AMOC, of this overturning current,