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Fears grow over Atlantic current slowdown threatening Europe
Original: A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention.
POLITICO reports growing European concern that Atlantic Ocean currents, including the system that keeps the continent's climate mild, could slow down, with consequences described as disrupting life in Europe on an unthinkable scale. Scientists have long warned that a weakening of this circulation could bring harsher winters, shifting rainfall and rising sea levels. The article says policymakers are only now starting to take the risk seriously.
Why now: New reporting on the risk of Atlantic circulation collapse has put a slow-burning climate threat back in the headlines.
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- A climate nightmare lurks in the Atlantic. Europe is starting to pay attention. · POLITICO
A slowdown of ocean currents that would disrupt life on the continent on an unthinkable scale.
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