Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

It’s been talked about for a while (in fact I covered this 6 years ago), but a lot of things have been said about the potential collapse of the Atlantic Gulf Stream, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC. This global current that keeps Europe and North America (but especially Europe) from being covered in ice is increasingly under threat of slowing or even stopping. The results would be catastrophic.