The overwhelming consensus of climate models and paleoclimate research indicates that the slowing of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is driven by anthropogenic climate change, particularly through increased greenhouse gases and freshwater from melting ice sheets, despite ongoing debate regarding the exact timing and observational detectability of the slowdown.
The vast majority of the provided literature (e.g., papers 0, 1, 4, 5, 8, 11) supports the premise that AMOC is sensitive to and weakens in response to anthropogenic climate change drivers such as rising CO2 and ice sheet melt. Conversely, paper [6] questions whether a measurable decline has occurred in specific recent decades based on heat flux proxies, representing a minority counter-perspective on historical detectability rather than refuting the broader physical mechanism. Thus, the evidence strongly supports the claim.