NO! The Antarctic Overturning Circulation is NOT REVERSING! The news is BAD enough without that!

From Just Have a Think.

If you’ve seen dramatic headlines in recent days declaring that the Southern Ocean’s overturning current has ‘CATASTROPHICALLY’ reversed, well you can rest easy because that claim has turned out to be a completely spurious interpretation of an otherwise very good (and plenty worrying enough) scientific research paper. Today we look at the paper and investigate how and why it all got blown up on the socials.

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Research Links

ICM Paper (Open Source)
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500440122

ICM-CSIC Website
https://www.icm.csic.es/en

ICM paper summary
https://www.icm.csic.es/en/news/change-southern-ocean-structure-can-have-climate-implications

Summary piece in The Conversation – author Alessandro Silvano
https://theconversation.com/completely-unexpected-antarctic-sea-ice-may-be-in-terminal-decline-due-to-rising-southern-ocean-salinity-259743

Giants of the Polar Deep – Natural World Facts YouTube channel