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Scientists fear a critical Atlantic Ocean system might collapse, triggering 'extreme cold' and sea level rise
The Week via Yahoo ^
| August 5th, 2021
| Brigid Kennedy, Contributing Writer
Posted on 08/05/2021 4:20:59 PM PDT by Mariner
Scientists are worried the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a "critical aquatic conveyer belt" that drives currents in the Atlantic Ocean, is at risk of near-complete collapse due to climate change, The Washington Post reports.
A shutdown of the crucial circulation system could "bring extreme cold to Europe and parts of North America, raise sea levels along the U.S. East Coast, and disrupt seasonal monsoons that provide water to much of the world," the Post reports. The effects, in short, would be devastating.
"The mere possibility that the AMOC tipping point is close should be enough for us to take countermeasures," warns Levke Caesar, a climate physicist at Maynooth University.
Scientists previously believed the AMOC would in fact weaken this century, but didn't imagine total collapse within the next 300 years except in absolute worst-case warming scenarios. Now, according to a new study, that critical threshold "is most likely much closer than we would have expected," said Niklas Boers, the study's author and a researcher at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. Any exact date, however, is still unknown.
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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amoc; atlanticocean; climatechange; climatehysteria; environment; fakescience; globalcooling; theenvironment
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Global warming is going to make it much, much colder.
And these dumb bastards think there's something they can do about it. Like make it colder?
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:20:59 PM PDT
by
Mariner
To: Mariner
“Might”. Or “might not”.
And what possible “countermeasures” could we take to influence a few quadrillion gallons of seawater?
L
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:22:29 PM PDT
by
Lurker
(Peaceful coexistence with the Left is not possible. Stop pretending that it is. )
To: Mariner
So cooling melts the poles as does warming and we are to pay no attention to our betters buying ocean front properties.
Got it.
To: Mariner
Another “Publish or Perish”
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:22:53 PM PDT
by
Don Corleone
(leave the gun, take the canolis)
To: Mariner
I’m deeply concerned that a giant iceberg is going to become lodged in the Mississippi River within 5 years, thereby leaving many people homeless along the Great River.../s
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:23:27 PM PDT
by
choctaw man
(Good ole Andrew Jackson, or You're the Reason God Made Oklahoma...)
To: Mariner
Dr. Peter Venkman: This city is headed for a disaster of biblical proportions.
Mayor: What do you mean, “biblical”?
Dr. Raymond Stantz: What he means is Old Testament, Mr. Mayor, real wrath of God type stuff.
Dr. Peter Venkman: Exactly.
Dr. Raymond Stantz: Fire and brimstone coming down from the skies! Rivers and seas boiling!
Dr. Egon Spengler: Forty years of darkness! Earthquakes, volcanoes...
Winston Zeddemore: The dead rising from the grave!
Dr. Peter Venkman: Human sacrifice, dogs and cats living together... mass hysteria!
Ghostbusters (1984)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087332/
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:23:35 PM PDT
by
Bubba_Leroy
(Dementia Joe is Not My President!)
To: Mariner
“A shutdown of the crucial circulation system could “bring extreme cold to Europe and parts of North America . . .”
Extreme cold - a lagging indicator of global warming.
To: Mariner
"While everyone is focused on COVID and arguing that there is no virus or that it is easily treated without vaccination, they are missing the real objective – our descent into a state of tyrannical psychosis that creates the totalitarian rule. "The totalitarian state has a standard playbook: First, they need to create fear. This is then followed by terrorizing the people.
Lastly, they will then seek power by offering solutions that require the surrender of all your rights for security.
This is what Ben Franklin was really referring to.
- Martin Armstrong (at linky)
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:25:15 PM PDT
by
aMorePerfectUnion
(“Fraud vitiates everything.” )
To: Mariner
I wish they would make up their minds about the ‘science’ they’re pushing this year. 🤪
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:25:46 PM PDT
by
NWFree
(Somebody has to say it)
To: Mariner
Do these idiots realize much of middle America was an ocean once? That is why they find Sea shells at the tops of the Rockies.
The Earth is very dynamic and the idea that some puny Democrats can stop change is laughable.
It is scary only because we let Democrats vote.
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:26:08 PM PDT
by
rellic
To: Mariner
These people are so screwed up that the contradictions in there headlines are glaring. I guess the ice is all going to melt and raise the ocean, because of the cold.
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:27:41 PM PDT
by
Revel
To: Mariner
Maybe we all need to fill up our sink and use an electric mixer to get the current flowing. Then, in sync, remove the stopper.
The resulting churning just might prime the Atlantic current.
[/s]
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:28:06 PM PDT
by
TomGuy
To: Mariner
Every article is might be a huge catastrophe.
It’s not news. It’s fearmongering.
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:28:08 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Mariner
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:28:09 PM PDT
by
Vendome
(I've Gotta Be Me https://youtu.be/wH-pk2vZG2M)
To: Mariner
the AMOC tipping point is close should be enough for us to take countermeasures, Like what...Blow up the Sun?
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:28:29 PM PDT
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
To: Mariner
A shutdown of the crucial circulation system could "bring extreme cold to Europe and parts of North America, raise sea levels along the U.S. East Coast, So, global warming is going burn us up or freeze us to death? It's "heads I win; tails you lose" for the global warming crowd.
Just re-read. "Raise sea levels along the U.S. East Coast". Uh, how can the sea level rise on the U.S. East Coast and not rise for the rest of the world?
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:28:40 PM PDT
by
libertylover
(Our biggest problem by far is that most of the news media is hate & agenda driven, not truth driven.)
To: aMorePerfectUnion
Yes. Installing irrational fear of unseeable things.
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:29:57 PM PDT
by
ifinnegan
( Democrats kill babies and harvest their organs to sell)
To: Mariner
When it comes to “research,” Potsdam is notorious as a haven for climate crackpots. Wrong about everything for forty years.
To: Mariner
We’re seeing what the left is doing with the planet today and quite frankly...
... I’m all for massive natural disasters now.
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:30:24 PM PDT
by
Celerity
To: aMorePerfectUnion
That is exactly what’s going on.
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posted on
08/05/2021 4:30:30 PM PDT
by
EvilCapitalist
(Pets are no substitute for children.)
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