Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low likelihood, study finds
Collapse of critical Atlantic current is no longer low-likelihood, study finds
Yeah, terrible news however on the bright side a bunch of companies and rich old people are making money. All at the expense of our future. /s
We haven't even made it to 1 million years, yet it doesn't matter what you think or how you reassure yourself you'll be fine, nature will wipe us and adapt. There's a reason act of nature are attributed to gods
This current isn't critical to the survival of the human species.
Pretty critical to a decent percentage of it though.
And I don't know about you but generally I'd like to thrive rather than just survive.
This isn't even remotely true. Extreme freezes and droughts will destroy crop growth and livestock across the globe. Mass starvation will be inevitable and the ones who will starve won't be the descendants of the people getting rich off of destroying the climate today. It'll be your grandkids (or nieces and nephews).
It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels.
Seems critical to a lot though...
nature will wipe us and adapt.
At this point I'm just ready for it to hurry up and get it over with.
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As soon as the ones more powerful and richer than me start doing all at least as much I do I'll try to do more.
Likely tipping point in the next decade or two but will take a century or more to happen. Anyone taking bets on how long it will be denied for?
how big the water would be after collapse ? what land will be lost ?
It's more than just a water level issue. As I understand it, the Amoc is responsable for warmer water cycling up to the coasts of western Europe resulting in warmer temperatures than they would normally get at that latitude. It would change the temperature and weather experienced there. Hank Green did a video talking about how it could potentially affect Ireland about a month ago.
“the tipping point that makes an Amoc shutdown inevitable is likely to be passed within a few decades, but that the collapse itself may not happen until 50 to 100 years later”
Long enough that everyone who got us into the mess will be dead and won’t have to suffer the consequences or admit they were wrong. 😑
That's why those fucking psychopaths are doing nothing to fix it and are exploiting the drive to do something.
I'd put all there kids in a cell until they fixed their families mistakes.
I'll be death too, yay
There could be a one-day delay and those responsible would not suffer consequences.
The presumption in their work is that ClimatePunctuation isn't accelerating.
That presumption is pervasive, among climate research.
It's wrong.
The actual speed of ClimatePunctuation is bell-curved, more or less:
Obviously, the evidence which keeps falsifying the optimism of the climate-research-field's models is evidence of accelerating process ( the deep East Antarctic ice-sheet being warmed 2x as quickly as models predicted, e.g. recently-published )
That such evidence KEEPS getting in our face, & we KEEP ignoring that we're getting the whole-speed-curve wrong, is evidence that paradigm-bound-thinking is overriding our ability-to-survive.
ClimatePunctuation's still accelerating.
IF the people who reject that are predicting 50-100y before it becomes inevitable that it shuts down, THEN ClimatePunctuation's accelerating is GUARANTEED to produce the result sooner, because they're predicting based on the wrong curve.
It doesn't matter, though: accountability/integrity isn't something that'll ever affect institutions, it's powerless against them, right?
Our kind protects what's most-important, & .. nonaccountability is the 1st thing we protect, before our very lives.
All the last few thousand years of history backs that fact.
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