The system ocean currents that is responsible maintaining temperate weather worldwide is danger of collapsing. Experts say the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) could collapse the next 50 years. AMOC brings heat Caribbean waters to the northern Atlantic Ocean between Greenland and Britain. Oceanographers say AMOC has been slowing down the past few decades because global warming. The northern Atlantic is the only region the world that has cooled the past 20 years. Experts once believed there was a 10 per cent chance AMOC crossing the tipping point this century. However, 44 experts publicly stated that is now a 50/50 possibility.
Meteorologists believe AMOC could fail the next few decades. They said this would lead to "devastating and irreversible impacts which will affect the entire world centuries to come". It would disrupt global weather patterns and adversely affect the lives hundreds millions people. The scientists predict that winter temperatures in the U.K. could become 15°C lower. Colder weather could "potentially threaten the viability agriculture northwestern Europe". The collapse AMOC could shift tropical monsoons southwards, causing widespread drought and famine. This will create huge increases the numbers climate refugees and escalate geopolitical tensions.
