!ifrickinglovescience I'm too lazy to effortpost today but "AMOC" is short for Atlantic meridional overturning circulation. And here's the wikipedia article along a gross simplification for dramatards
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation
Ever wondered how come that England has a mild climate despite being located at the same latitude as the Alberta Province in Canada?
AMOC is the reason, the Gulf Stream which is part of the system to be more precise
If AMOC and the Gulf Stream shut down then London is going to get the same harsh winters as Calgary gets . It will also affect the global hydrological cycle.
The last IPCC report of 2022 said there are no reasons to believe AMOC will collapse this century, even though it is slowing down. The reason for it is the melting of the ice sheets. Global warming melts the ice and ads freshwater to the oceans along with extra heat which de-stabilizes the currents.
However since last year there have been 5 papers claiming AMOC collapse will happen in a few decades. The doomsday paper by James Hansen predicts a 4.8C climate sensitivity and AMOC collapse at some point between 2025 and 2100.
Now /r/climatechange discusses a new dutch paper but they're not having it.
The results are…very worrying to say the least. I will be far more worried if this get verified by other research or from other models. Plus I am naturally skeptical of studies that go straight to the popular press before going through peer review.
It has been identified in an earlier study from danish scientists too. One of the most disastrous tipping points one could think of !!
!physics and !chemistry, I have a question for you guys at academia. Not to discredit hardworking scientists but just asking, how common is it for some soyentists to publish attention-seeking papers?
As I stated when someone else posted this article a few days ago, the AMOC Is collapsing currently.
If you don't have a plan for a way out by 2030, you're stupid. Plain and simple.
What's your plan for 2030 dramatards?
The earth has amazing coping mechanisms. An AMOC collapse that increase arctic ice and freezes the shit out of the northern hemisphere seems like the planet striking back to gain some balance. George Carlin put it well, "The planet will be fine, it's the people that are fricked"
Doomer redditors don't understand that AMOC collapse will not cool the planet, it will merely cause a regional cooling and redirect heat while the warming thread won't stop. Also, George Carlin quoters should be shot
Unpublished research; not yet peer reviewed, anyone with the skills and time to do so isn't here, but in academia. Follow up with the research in a year or whatever. Could very likely be a mistake in his math. This is why we bother with falsifiability and institutional disconfirmation. One scientist makes a claim, everyone else in his peer group tries to find fault. If it isn't disproven, they may be on to something.
Honestly, I know this is a bad take but I'm just enjoying the years left that I can.
No kids, doing the shit I feel fulfilled by. Do what I can to affect positive change but... yeah. Convincing 8 billion other people with the culture war, identity politic, science down-playing, Christo fascist rhetroic is very hard. And I made an oath as a kid that we would sing at every assembly.
"The Earth is my home, I promise to keep it, healthy and beautiful. I will love the land, the air and the water." etc etc.
Getting older just kills the naivety of youth.
NO, NOT THE RACIST FASCISTS KILLING THE EARTH
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I love how we all can be doomed very soon and our politicians are barely doing anything that could realistically prevent it lmfao
I'm not convinced wether our politicians would be able to do something about it, even if they'd try.
This challenge has become totally global, as well as quite „class-warfarish".
We as populations could put pressure on our governments, of course, but it would require another level of unanimity.
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But its past 2020 and we didn't address climate issues? Have the ice caps not melted causing the sea levels to rise? I was told that would happen.
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It's happening but is a slow process. Under current scenarios the sea level should rise around 60 cm by 2100 and 1m under worst case scenarios (though some papers claim a 2m rise under RCP 8.5 which is the "increased CO2 emissions throughout the 21st century" scenario).
And it will continue after 2100. The projected rise under worst case scenario for 2300 is around 5 meters.
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Wow its crazy that's its been about to happen for so long and has been predicted to be right around the corner so many times but just continually goes nowhere. Why would the scientists milking billions in government money for this keep getting such bad predictions?
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Go visit a glacier in the arctic and watch it melting in real time.
God rightoids are so r-slurred you almost make me want to vote for kamala
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But they are growing, hence why they tried rebranding from global warming to global climate change? They knew even idiots wouldn't believe in global warming anymore so not its just "oh yeah the weather is gonna be different."
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no the glaciers arent growing dumbass, melting in the arctic has only increased year over year: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-020-77403-5
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The Perito Moreno glacier in South Argentina receded 700 meters last year alone
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can't we just make it illegal for it to recede any further?
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should just build a giant air conditioner to preserve it. But because he's a lolbert the most likely outcome is to privatize the glacier and sell bottled water with it at exorbitant prices.
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https://x.com/misterduncan/status/1820168563350450324
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very cool they stopped gathering data in 2017 for their 2020 study. Hmm i wonder why
https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/145185/major-greenland-glacier-is-growing
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https://nsidc.org/ice-sheets-today (data up to 2024)
Even your 2020 year was an overall loss
Fricking dumbass
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Wow you have a different source from a different time that says something different. that proves everything! Who would think that the weather would be different in a different year! This proves global warming err climate change
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Holograms made by Big Science to trick the sheeple into walking places
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RCp8.5 is literal trolling for grant money LOL
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i'm pretty sure the world ended 10 or 20 years ago because of global warming. we were warned but WE DIDN'T LISTEN!
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Fun fact! We're actually in heck!
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Darn, gotta turn up the AC a degree lower
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