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What If Earth’s Scariest Tipping Point Isn’t What We Thought?

Season 8 Episode 2 | 12m 11s

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC for short, is the Atlantic's heat conveyor belt. And experts have been warning us for a while that it may be on the verge of collapse. But brand new research suggests the AMOC's tipping point may be different than we previously thought. So what is this new tipping point? And do we have time to save the AMOC

Aired: 11/02/26
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