The North Atlantic cold spot breaks the warming trend

Get 1 month of super smart dictation with Wispr Flow Pro for free here: https://ref.wisprflow.ai/howtown Sources for this episode: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1KUnfkVI_G7OzeR9WYWMu9v_TvheTB9PW7BDCmVRBIoQ/edit?tab=t.0 To support independent science journalism and get bonus content ... JOIN OUR PATREON: https://www.patreon.com/Howtown While most of the planet warms, a patch of ocean south of Greenland—often called the “cold blob” or “North Atlantic warming hole”—is not warming. In fact, depending on which years you look at, it has actually cooled since industrialization. In this video we investigate this odd phenomenon which has implications for the future of our climate and the stability of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). The AMOC is a system of currents that transports heat from the tropics to the North Atlantic, regulating weather patterns across Northwestern Europe and beyond. However, recent evidence suggests this vital system may be weakening. Could human-induced climate change, specifically the warming of the ocean and the influx of freshwater from melting ice, be pushing this circulation toward a tipping point? We take a journey through centuries of oceanographic discovery to understand the overturning circulation, the urgency of research on the AMOC, and what the potential collapse of this system could mean for the stable world we built our civilizations on. We're grateful for the generous support of the Patreon Town Council: Bev Fong Sean Barrett Jon Hewett Albychen avaren Evan Hass Mark Tinker L.A. O’Connor Marcos Huerta Joaquim Salles Sam Gaty Edgar Sutawika Tim Davey Navneet Pedro ZM Martin Weeks Dimi Bryce Golden-Chen Estelle Caswell Gregory Laborde Yash Murthy Matthew Stvartak Garret Wates Slightly Suspicious Mind Kellyn Lorentzen-Goler omg.science Duncan Stannett Keith England Jocelyn Tabancay Duffy Casey Schatz Mark McCreary Jonathan McCabe Branden Ushjima Dr Esh | Second Opinion Wookiee Henderson Byung-Cheol Cho Frances Haugen Gilbo Jiménez Roy Lara Melanie Halley Dmitry Archie Stonehill Ed Martini Jose Zaragoza Jr Jamieson Urquhart Nate Hingst Jay McZara Scott Heimendinger Thin Air Noëmie Pedro Sarkis Portela Ilya Gregory Batson Chapters: 0:00 cold blob 1:01 side quest to turkey 3:00 a bucket meets the deep 5:10 deutsche atlantik expedition 6:31 the neutrally buoyant float 7:54 woa just look at it 9:24 what are we doing to it? 11:09 ghost of climates past 14:40 cells in shells 17:07 what if it collapses? 18:16 what the data shows so far 21:38 climate models are flawed 23:27 deep history 24:33 thanks!