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Everything you need to know about the surprisingly cold ‘blob’ in the North Atlantic ocean
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What explains the cold blob in the North Atlantic? Michael Mann of Penn State and Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research say that to see a pattern like this, in an otherwise record hot year, is a sign that the Atlantic ocean’s so-called “meridional overturning circulation” or AMOC — which is driven by differences in ocean temperature and salinity in the North Atlantic — may be slowing down
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