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TheGuardian.com - The Gulf Stream system could collapse as soon as 2025, a new study suggests. The shutting down of the vital ocean currents, called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc) by scientists, would bring catastrophic climate impacts.
Amoc was already known to be at its weakest in 1,600 years owing to global heating and researchers spotted warning signs of a tipping point in 2021.
The new analysis estimates a timescale for the collapse of between 2025 and 2095, with a central estimate of 2050, if global carbon emissions are not reduced. Evidence from past collapses indicates changes of temperature of 10C in a few decades, although these occurred during ice ages.
Other scientists said the assumptions about how a tipping point would play out and uncertainties in the underlying data are too large for a reliable estimate of the timing of the tipping point. But all said the prospect of an Amoc collapse was extremely concerning and should spur rapid cuts in carbon emissions.
Amoc carries warm ocean water northwards towards the pole where it cools and sinks, driving the Atlantic’s currents. But an influx of fresh water from the accelerating melting of Greenland’s ice cap and other sources is increasingly smothering the currents.
A collapse of Amoc would have disastrous consequences around the world, severely disrupting the rains that billions of people depend on for food in India, South America and west Africa. It would increase storms and drop temperatures in Europe, and lead to a rising sea level on the eastern coast of North America. It would also further endanger the Amazon rainforest and Antarctic ice sheets.
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Could, might, projected, and validation 20+ years in the future. AKA more apocalyptic bullshit.
ReplyDeleteAll based on predictions based on extrapolations of incomplete data from 1600 years ago ...
ReplyDeleteSomehow this brings to mind the old axiom I was taught in college:
"No one ever got his research grant renewed for saying everything is going to be just fine."
Given that Western Europe and North America carbon emissions have been decreasing while China's continue to grow, this sounds like encouragement for the ChiComs. Their strategy of creating a climate disaster for North America and Europe is working. And we are even destroying our own economies for them in the process.
ReplyDeleteAssuming this is actually a thing, and not just another way for the Greenies to scream that we should self-destruct our civilization, become serfs for the WEF, and eat bugs, own nothing, and be happy..
I believe such a climate issue as much as I believe any daily weather report that tells me the right temperature, humidity, and when we are going to get rain. Nothing is every correct. These Climate Cult fools want their power and money.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was in the Air Force, I had a friend in the Met office. We were discussing how weather forecasting had developed, and I mentioned that back in the days of sail, sailors could watch the winds, waves, clouds, and sun, and forecast significant weather out to about three days. He answered, yes, but now with satellite data, world-wide weather stations, aircraft, and observatories, and banks of super-computers, we can do it out to 72 hours!
DeleteOld news, there was a guy who wrote a book about it last century, "Not by fire but by ice", Robert W. Felix. He has since passed on.
ReplyDeleteFWIW over the last 10,000 years it have been both warmer and colder than it is now (read from core samples).
It's a model. "Bullshit".
ReplyDeleteAll one has to do is ask one question to validate, or better, invalidate this bullshit.....who is going to gain monetarily from the immediate misplacement of this theory?
ReplyDeleteOkay. Here is yet another prediction of doom by the bozo's that have been totally wrong 100% of the time. Not going to lose any sleep over this either.
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