Posted on 07/29/2023 11:08:39 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
The Atlantic Ocean’s sensitive circulation system has become slower and less resilient, according to a new analysis of 150 years of temperature data — raising the possibility that this crucial element of the climate system could collapse within the next few decades.
Scientists have long seen the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, as one of the planet’s most vulnerable “tipping elements” — meaning the system could undergo an abrupt and irreversible change, with dramatic consequences for the rest of the globe. Under Earth’s current climate, this aquatic conveyor belt transports warm, salty water from the tropics to the North Atlantic, and then sends colder water back south along the ocean floor. But as rising global temperatures melt Arctic ice, the resulting influx of cold freshwater has thrown a wrench in the system — and could shut it down entirely.
The study published Tuesday in the journal Nature Communications suggests that continued warming will push the AMOC over its “tipping point” around the middle of this century. The shift would be as abrupt and irreversible as turning off a light switch, and it could lead to dramatic changes in weather on either side of the Atlantic.
“This is a really worrying result,” said Peter Ditlevsen, a climate physicist at the University of Copenhagen and lead author of the new study. “This is really showing we need a hard foot on the brake” of greenhouse gas emissions.
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They chicken-littled this a few decades ago.
Just goes to show they are running out of hysterical scaremongering. I think the Alien invader space pilots landed with a thunk so this is recycled pseudo crisis garbage.
Rerun. I can remember this prediction being thrown against the wall at least ten years ago. Maybe twenty. Another Climate Hysterics’ fail.
How long until they mandate wearing masks to slow the spread of climate change?
we wait and see if this is at the same truth level as kerrys 2009 “no ice in artic” in 5 years. i think you know its more s.
Thus came the Next Great Ice Age, so severe was the tipping point that the entire world tipped over. Guam hardest hit.
The EV’s on the sunken car carrier ship are still burning.
The POSSIBILITY, COULD collapse, the next few DECADES.
There is also a POSSIBILITY that Russia or Iran or unknown group COULD detonate suitcase nukes on Washington DC in the next few DECADES!
There are a lot of things that COULD POSSIBLY happen in the next few DECADES. /spit
I seem that every MSM outlet has a daily assignment to issue at least one climate change story/fake narrative.
They ran out of plausible fake stories years ago so now they have a daily competition to see who can come up with the most outlandish BS they can think of.
The winner get a dream date with Shift.
Put our masks on?
State run science.
Climate Skeptic website "Watts Up With That" calmly debunks this theory, which is based almost entirely on a computer model.
"Watts Up" points out that the last time the northward warm current stopped flowing was when a huge glacial lake collapsed and flooded the north Atlantic and the Arctic Ocean with fresh water.
"Watts Up" also points out that a second research group, using real data, has concluded that the tropical current is getting stronger and speeding up.
"Wrong, USA Today, Ocean Currents Aren't Near Collapse"
https://wattsupwiththat.com/2023/07/28/wrong-usa-today-ocean-currents-arent-near-collapse/
The MSM is also flooding the news each day with sudden and miraculous scientific discoveries that will make sun and wind generated (or stored) electricity incredibly cheap and efficient.
They touch every technology base - electric car super mileage, super storage mega batteries, no more rare earth minerals necessary, etc, etc.
The neo-Marxist propaganda flows like diarrhea!
Surf’s up!
Half the US, including Mar-a-Lago, was supposed to have already flooded.
Posterity is just around the corner.
No barley and potatoes?
Years ago somebody in the U.N. said something like “The fight against climate change will be the largest redistribution of the world’s economy ever seen.”
There are a lot of coal seam fires in China due to poor safety controls. They emit more CO2 in the air than all of the USA’s cars and trucks every year. And they never go out, and there are more fires every year.
I wonder how many people from the Woodstock crowd became Scientists?.
We’ll, that’s ok, but NO FRICKIN’ LIMA BEANS!!!
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