Scientists warn that a key Atlantic current could collapse, among other climate tipping points

NBC News | Comcast ^ | November 11, 2024 | By Evan Bush (D-NBC)

[Oldeconomybuyer]

Venezuela lost its final glacier this year. The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing, on average, 30 million tons of ice per hour. Ice loss from the Thwaites Glacier, also known as the “Doomsday” glacier because its collapse could precipitate rapid Antarctic ice loss, may be unstoppable.

These are just a few of the stark findings from more than 50 leading snow and ice scientists, which are detailed in a new report from the International Cryosphere Climate Initiative.

The report summarizes the state of snow and ice in 2024: In short, experts agree, it’s been a horrible year for the frozen parts of Earth, an expected result of global warming. What’s more, top cryosphere scientists are growing increasingly worried that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), a key ocean current that governs how heat cycles in the Atlantic Ocean, is on a path toward collapse.

That warning and the new report both come amid fears the U.S. will backslide on its climate commitments and pull out of the Paris Agreement after Donald Trump takes office in January. Trump wants to remove the U.S. from the international treaty, and he began that process during his first presidential administration. President Joe Biden reversed the move in 2021.

Peter Neff, a glaciologist and climate scientist at the University of Minnesota who was not involved in the new report, said its authors clearly communicated the scientific consensus.

“It’s nothing surprising for a glaciologist. Across the board, there’s not good news with respect to ice on Earth. It’s all, for the most part, going in one direction,” Neff said.

[Nervous Tick]

Oh Noes! The “International Cry-o-sphere” has the sads!

[janetjanet998]

Doom! We can’t ignore these warnings
Only 7.24 years left (again)

Video
1983. NBC News warns of Catastrophe climate change by the 1990’s
https://rumble.com/v3sxocp-1983.-nbc-news-warns-of-catastrophe-climate-change-by-the-1990s.html

CBS climate change special from 1982 with Al Gore says Bye Bye Florida
https://rumble.com/v4pup3r-cbs-climate-change-special-from-1982-with-al-gore-says-bye-bye-florida.html

[HYPOCRACY]

Drill baby drill! That way we can run more air conditioners to cool the planet.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

Funny, I live right by the ocean and have for 50 years, and gee whiz will you look at that, it still never goes past a certain point on the shore.

And if the coastline is in danger of flooding, why do all these rich pro-climate change goons like John Kerry, Al Gore, Joe Biden all have beach front houses?

[central_va]

could

[Right_Wing_Madman]

The University of Illinois once had a website in which you could view satellite images of the polar ice caps on any day going back to 1974 (if I remember correctly).

The university took down the site several years ago, I suspect, because the ice caps weren't cooperating with the global warming narrative. I remember the Antarctic ice was getting LARGER!

[Redleg Duke]

Yeah, and the sun could go nova, too.

Try blaming that on us!

[al_c]

“It’s nothing surprising for a glaciologist. Across the board, there’s not good news with respect to ice on Earth. It’s all, for the most part, going in one direction,” Neff said.

Just as it has been since the ice age. What do they expect… the same climate to exist forever? We live on a changing globe. It has always been in a state of change and it always will be.

[fuzzylogic]

New York will be under water in 6 months.

It’s true.

[GrandJediMasterYoda]

There's an article from 1912 warning of climate change lol. I'll see if I can find it.

Here it is!

[CIB-173RDABN]

So?

Even if true and I don’t believe it, but even if true so what.

The one unique thing about humans is they can adapt to almost any climate (and it is much easier with today’s technology then any time in the past).

The only thing that is going to kill humanity is environmental fanatics that want to destroy all human progress.

[BitWielder1]

I've heard this warning, and others like it, a couple of times a year, every year for my entire life.

[montag813]

These people are retarded beyond belief. Trump needs to fund government-produced anti-climate hysteria propaganda to co bat this ridiculous brainwashing of 2 generations of children

[kiryandil]

Scientists warn that Pedo Joe Biden could drop a load in his adult diaper this morning, for the 1,825th consecutive day, among other climate tipping points

[Thomas Jerome]

So how does money keep ice from melting? If I put a hundred dollar bill in my cooler will it keep it colder longer?

[SaveFerris]

[Scientists warn that a key Atlantic current could collapse, among other climate tipping points]




It's just not going to matter ... THE DAY AFTER TOMORROW!!!

[montag813]

The Greenland Ice Sheet is losing, on average, 30 million tons of ice per hour.

"Daddy, why is it called 'Greenland'?"

[SaveFerris]

[If I put a hundred dollar bill in my cooler will it keep it colder longer?]

ALWAYS carry cold cash

[small farm girl]

Still days “in a few centuries” lol