Should we be worried about the Gulf Stream?
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By: Simon Rozé Follow
50 mins
It is invisible, but it is nevertheless one of the essential cogs of the climate machine.
In the heart of the Atlantic Ocean, diving to meet the Gulf Stream, the most famous sea current but still unknown whose moods never cease to worry us.
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Should we be worried about the Gulf Stream?
This is the refrain that we have been hearing for a few weeks, following a study published
in the journal Nature Geoscience
.
It is rather, in this case of what one calls the AMOC ... the great Atlantic circulation which connects the oceans of South Africa to Scandinavia: it would be, one reads, at its most low level for 1000 years.
What does it mean ?
What is it really?
Should we be worried?
with
Didier
Swingedouw
, CNRS researcher, he works at the Oceanic and Continental Environments and Paleoenvironments Laboratory (EPOC), in Bordeaux
Jean-Baptiste
Sallée
, oceanographer and climatologist
at the LOCEAN Oceanography and Climate Laboratory.
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