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The system of ocean currents that responsible for maintaining temperate weather worldwide is in danger of . Experts say the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could within the next 50 years. AMOC heat from Caribbean waters to the northern Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Britain. Oceanographers AMOC has been down for the past few decades because of global warming. The northern Atlantic is the only region in the world that has in the past 20 years. Experts once there was a 10 per cent chance of AMOC the tipping point this century. However, 44 experts publicly that is now a 50/50 possibility.

Meteorologists AMOC could in the next few decades. They said this would to "devastating and irreversible impacts which will the entire world for centuries to come". It would global weather patterns and adversely the lives of hundreds of millions of people. The scientists that winter temperatures in the U.K. could become 15°C lower. Colder weather could "potentially the viability of agriculture in northwestern Europe". The collapse of AMOC could tropical monsoons southwards, causing widespread drought and famine. This will create huge increases in the numbers of climate refugees and geopolitical tensions.

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