The Gulf Stream and its parent current, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation/AMOC may be weakening more rapidly than expected due to global warming. That is, the melting of freshwater glaciers and the Greenland ice cap tied to warming is sending so much freshwater into the far North Atlantic, its salinity is being diluted, which can weaken or even shut down the Gulf Stream, as has occurred several times in Earth's past...quickly, too.