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

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. Help support this channel's independence at http://www.patreon.com/justhaveathink Or with a donation via Paypal by clicking here https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=GWR73EHXGJMAE&source=url You can also help keep my brain ticking over during the long hours of research and editing via the nice folks at BuyMeACoffee.com https://www.buymeacoffee.com/justhaveathink Video Transcripts available at our website http://www.justhaveathink.com 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rw4WX2Dd8HA&t=464s Check out other YouTube Climate Communicators zentouro: https://www.youtube.com/user/zentouro Climate Adam: https://www.youtube.com/user/ClimateAdam Kurtis Baute: https://www.youtube.com/user/ScopeofScience Levi Hildebrand: https://www.youtube.com/user/The100LH Simon Clark: https://www.youtube.com/user/SimonOxfPhys Sarah Karvner: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCRwMkTu8sCwOOD6_7QYrZnw ClimateTown: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCuVLG9pThvBABcYCm7pkNkA Jack Harries: https://www.youtube.com/user/JacksGap Beckisphere: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT39HQq5eDKonaUV8ujiBCQ Our Changing Climate : https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCNXvxXpDJXp-mZu3pFMzYHQ