Nature Communications (Oct 2021)

Increased risk of near term global warming due to a recent AMOC weakening

  • Rémy Bonnet,
  • Didier Swingedouw,
  • Guillaume Gastineau,
  • Olivier Boucher,
  • Julie Deshayes,
  • Frédéric Hourdin,
  • Juliette Mignot,
  • Jérôme Servonnat,
  • Adriana Sima

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-26370-0
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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New climate models show a stronger warming with greenhouse gas emissions than is suggested by observations. Here, the authors argue that internal variability of the Atlantic Ocean may have dampened some of the recent warming, which could explain part of the disagreement between the newer models and observations.