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Columbia Climate School

Sudden Change

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The study finds that changes in AMOC strength (blue line) began hundreds of years before the sharp and abrupt temperature changes over Greenland (red line) that mark the beginning and end of the hemispheric cold snap known as the Younger Dryas period (shown here as a gray column).

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Muschitiello <em>et al</em>.

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