Climate catch-22: Cleaning up air pollution could speed key Atlantic current decline
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Climate catch-22: Cleaning up air pollution could speed key Atlantic current decline

It may sound counterintuitive, but new research suggests that cleaning up air pollution could contribute to a weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). This is the ocean current system that acts like a giant conveyor belt, moving warm surface water northward and cool deep water southward.