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Crucial Atlantic current closer to collapse than we thought — leading to global catastrophe: ‘Need to prepare now’ (only 4.75 years left)
NY Post ^ | 4/22/26 | Ben Cost

Posted on 04/22/2026 7:30:24 PM PDT by Libloather

The state of “current” affairs is not good.

An Atlantic current that’s key for maintaining the climate could collapse sooner than we thought, potentially bringing about a global weather apocalypse, per an alarming study in the journal Science Advances.

“This is a key result with implications for the future climate of the Atlantic and beyond,” the international team of researchers wrote in the paper.

The at-risk current in question is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, a “conveyor belt of the ocean” that circulates warm water toward the ocean surface from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere.

This oceanic artery, which includes the Gulf Stream that runs from the Gulf of Mexico to the East Coast and across the Atlantic to Europe, helps maintain the mild climate of Europe, the UK and the East Coast. It also helps sustain marine life.

According to the study, the AMOC will slow between 43% and 59% by 2100, marking a 60% greater weakening than past projections estimated.

If this is true, the Earth’s eco-librium could be past the point of “no return,” the authors wrote.

A total collapse would reportedly spell disaster. It would persist for hundreds or even thousands of years and potentially cause sea levels to rise across North America, Livescience reported.

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Outdoors; Science; Travel; Weather
KEYWORDS: amoc; atlantic; catastrophe; current; global; gulfstream; northernhemisphere; oceaniccurrents

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So, bombing the crap out of Iran was pretty good timing, eh?
1 posted on 04/22/2026 7:30:24 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

Will You-rope embrace the Rooskies to stay warm?


2 posted on 04/22/2026 7:33:35 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Libloather

We’re doomed before King Hakeem and his butt boy Chunky Schumer can conquer America.


3 posted on 04/22/2026 7:34:55 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (I May be Old but I'm Glad I Got to See America Before It Went To Sh**!)
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To: Libloather

Wasn’t Detroit under a mile of ice a few years back?


4 posted on 04/22/2026 7:34:58 PM PDT by Paladin2 (YMMV)
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To: Libloather

Oh no. Thats terrible. Why has no one warned us. Whatever shall we do.


5 posted on 04/22/2026 7:37:21 PM PDT by bigdaddy45
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To: Libloather

Another hissy fit for Greta.


6 posted on 04/22/2026 7:40:19 PM PDT by ryderann
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To: Libloather

Without the full Gulf streamm, the EU will have perpetual winter...

Now, when the Ruskies cut off that gas pipeline, NATO is in a heap of trouble...
All those moslems will learn to live in subzero temperatures...


7 posted on 04/22/2026 7:41:37 PM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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To: bigdaddy45

Guess we need to get busy producing more CO2.


8 posted on 04/22/2026 7:42:27 PM PDT by suijuris
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To: Libloather

....”prepare now ....”. Oh, okay. Fookin’ idjits!


9 posted on 04/22/2026 7:43:38 PM PDT by rktman (Destroy America from within? On hold! Enlisted USN 1967 proudly. 🚫💉! 🇮🇱🙏! Winning currently!)
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To: Libloather

Just looked at map with temps it’s still freezing in Canada


10 posted on 04/22/2026 7:44:04 PM PDT by butlerweave (Fateh)
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To: Libloather

Can’t take much... more... doom porn. I can’t get much harder.

The green movement is a doomsday cult. They need deep programming.


11 posted on 04/22/2026 7:46:36 PM PDT by wildcard_redneck ( Neocons in love with the Ukraine War hate how long the Iran War is taking..........)
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To: suijuris

The decline in the Atlantic Meridonal Oscillation is scarier than being stabbed on the subway by a lunatic released from detention by Biden . Actually no, let’s fix the lunatic problem first.


12 posted on 04/22/2026 7:47:52 PM PDT by brookwood (First the left said it was OK to steal. Next they said it was OK to )
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To: Libloather

Newsmax reported that the owner of The Atlanta is Steve Jobs’ widow. She is a donor to SPLC. She is close with Hillary.

Connect the dots, right?


13 posted on 04/22/2026 8:02:27 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam ( "Trouble knocked at the door, but, hearing laughter, hurried away". - B. Franklin)
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To: Libloather

Weak or not, I don’t see it collapsing.

Currents are caused by temperature, salinity, and density differences and affected by the Coriolis Effect.

When the water is uniform in temperature, salinity, and thereby density, and the earth stops spinning, then we’d have a problem.

I’ll sleep well tonight.


14 posted on 04/22/2026 8:07:04 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon." Amen. Come, Lord Jesus….)
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Oh NOs...the sky is falling yet again !

Having a 100 acre woodlot, whatever might happen, these pearl clutchers need to know we here will stay warm.

Buy a wood stove today !



15 posted on 04/22/2026 8:10:52 PM PDT by Candor7 ( Ask not for whom the Trump Trolls,He trolls for thee!<img src="" width=300</img><a href="">tag</a>))
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To: bigdaddy45; Libloather

I think the only way to fix this is with extensive studies and by raising taxes.


16 posted on 04/22/2026 8:12:24 PM PDT by oldplayer (Anyon)
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To: Libloather

This is probably true. Some suspect this was the real cause of the younger Dryas episode.


17 posted on 04/22/2026 8:16:42 PM PDT by DouglasKC
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To: Libloather

So much for the Globull Warming hoax if the AMOC collapses.
More like a return to a Glacial Maximum type climate.

CO2 ain’t got nothin’ ta do with that!

But I’m not going to worry about that either or anything else the exspurts predict for 74+ years in the future.


18 posted on 04/22/2026 8:42:57 PM PDT by TigersEye (The Democrat Party - like the love child of La Cosa Nostra and Al Qaeda )
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I think the only way to fix this is with extensive studies and by raising taxes.

And lots of wife and brother-in-law consulting contracts!

19 posted on 04/22/2026 8:44:50 PM PDT by Sparticus
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To: Libloather
All this time they have said Global Warming will cause sea levels to rise, drowning the beaches and the cities along the coast...

Now they're claiming the loss of the Gulf Stream will cause Global Cooling in Europe and North America and cause sea levels to rise, drowning the beaches and the cities along the coast...

Which is it?

20 posted on 04/22/2026 9:12:44 PM PDT by ZOOKER
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