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Screenshot of top of this paper with a temperature map of the world if Amoc collapses. Nordic countries ice cold, the rest boiling. Open Letter by Climate Scientists to the Nordic Council of Ministers Reykjavik, October 2024 We, the undersigned, are scientists working in the field of climate research and feel it is urgent to draw the attention of the Nordic Council of Ministers to the serious risk of a major ocean circulation change in the Atlantic. A string of scientific studies in the past few years suggests that this risk has so far been greatly underestimated. Such an ocean circulation change would have devastating and irreversible impacts especially for Nordic countries, but also for other parts of the world. -2.4 -1.2 -0.6 0.6 1.2 2.4 (°C) Annual mean temperature change in an idealised future CO2 doubling scenario in which the AMOC has fully collapsed. Source: Science'.