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Wallace Broecker's article "The Biggest Chill" in Natural History, discussing the Younger Dryas cold reversal, carried a cartoon of the global thermohaline circulation as a single looping belt of warm surface flow and cold deep return. Drawn to explain abrupt climate change to a lay readership, it became the canonical image of the circulation in textbooks and news graphics — and fixed in the public mind a picture of one belt with one engine that the subsequent observational record does not support.

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The Biggest Chill

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