After over a year of record-high global sea temperatures, the Atlantic is cooling off more quickly than ever recorded, which could impact weather around the world
This. I work at a research lab and we don't know shit about shit. Sure, we can gesture vaguely at anthropogenic climate change, but that doesnt get you published.
The fact that it's probably several different climate-induced processes causing the change makes it very difficult to establish causality. All we know definitively is that shits fucked
im guessing this is because the gulfstream is practically gone, apparently this could lead to western france getting extremely harsh winters if I remember the articles i read about it correctly.
edit: please disregard anything said, this is probably very, very wrong and dumb
I would have assumed it was due to a weakening of the North Equatorial/Gulf Stream Current. the IPCC Sixth Assessment said that would be a thing that happens, though it probably wouldn't collapse entirely.
even so, a weakening would have dramatic impacts.
kinda surprised it isn't mentioned in the article as a "maybe" or whatever.