NYT: the mightiest river you will never see

Dear friends,

“IT’S ONE OF THE MIGHTIEST RIVERS you will never see, carrying some 30 times more water than all the world’s freshwater rivers combined.”

Those aren’t my words. They’re from an excellent piece my colleagues published in 2021, about a hugely important system of ocean currents that scientists have given an exceptionally uncharismatic name: the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation.

You might want to read that piece first, to get a sense of what might be threatening the AMOC. Then you can read my story, on the front page of Wednesday’s New York Times, about new evidence suggesting that those threats are closer than scientists once thought.

Ray