Garbage in, garbage out.
Posted on 02/10/2024 8:34:29 AM PST by devane617
An abrupt shutdown of Atlantic Ocean currents that could put large parts of Europe in a deep freeze is looking a bit more likely and closer than before as a new complex computer simulation finds a "cliff-like" tipping point looming in the future.
A long-worried nightmare scenario, triggered by Greenland's ice sheet melting from global warming, still is at least decades away if not longer, but maybe not the centuries that it once seemed, a new study in Friday's Science Advances finds. The study, the first to use complex simulations and include multiple factors, uses a key measurement to track the strength of vital overall ocean circulation, which is slowing.
A collapse of the current—called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC—would change weather worldwide because it means a shutdown of one of key the climate and ocean forces of the planet. It would plunge northwestern European temperatures by 9 to 27 degrees (5 to 15 degrees Celsius) over the decades, extend Arctic ice much farther south, turn up the heat even more in the Southern Hemisphere, change global rainfall patterns and disrupt the Amazon, the study said. Other scientists said it would be a catastrophe that could cause worldwide food and water shortages.
So, it's back to Global Freezing?
[[”cliff-like” tipping point looming in the future]]
Oh my, that’s hugh and series
These scientists just keep on guessing....Thank goodness for Grant Money.
Quick, everyone cut off their left hand! That will solve the problem!
how did we ever survive the “Tipping Point” when miles high thick ice covered parts of the USA and melted and turned into great lakes? Long BEFORE SUV’s and Industries were around?
I’m more worried about the lack of oxygen in the room.
Wait...the ocean can affect global climate?! Outside of our own puny efforts to do so?
Color me shocked!
Europe needs a deep freeze to maybe WAKE THEM UP
“Is it Trump’s fault or my CO2?”
It’s vegetarians eating too many beans.
No. It’s your garden and your foolish desire to continue eating and breathing. If you would only stop doing that we could all be saved. Well, not you, but the important people. Like me.
phys.org is looking like a propaganda outlet these days.
Meanwhile… a COLLAPSE IN THE EARTH’S ROTATION will end our 24 hour days.
“ Meanwhile… a COLLAPSE IN THE EARTH’S ROTATION will end our 24 hour days.”
Did we not pay the bill again to the rotation company?
Does this cliff look like an inverted hockey stick?
This is exactly what I have wondered about. There have been numerous ice ages in Earth’s history. Chicago was buried under a mile of ice at one time during an ice age. How did all that ice melt? It melted due to natural cycles which man has no control over.
There are natural cycles that we don’t fully understand and have no control over. Even if we everything that Greta Thunberg told us to do, it would not affect these natural cycles.
They say that like it’s a bad thing…
Garbage in, garbage out.
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