Don’t think I need to summarize this one. This should be world news right now. This is bad news for everyone.
So when I get to the section titled “what can we do?” I just stop reading, because what’s the fucking point?
The only options left are all illegal. It is time to disobey.
I don’t know what we are supposed to do. It’s not over, we still have a fight left on our hands. I’m just going to be depressed the rest of the day and hope my wife doesn’t notice bcz it’s her birthday. I’ll figure out how I can help later.
I’ve seen a couple of articles from earth.com shared lately and they always have this clickbaity sensationalist tone. I don’t like it.
Looking at the original publication this article is based on I don’t understand much (I’m not a climate scientist myself), but one sentence stands out:
Whether global warming has affected the strength of this overturning circulation over the past century is still debated: observational studies suggest that there has been persistent weakening since the mid-twentieth century, whereas climate models systematically simulate a stable circulation.
The climate models we all know and predict how climate change will affect us all seem to work on the basis that these currents have a stable circulation that doesn’t change, which doesn’t seem to be the case. Therefore the climate models we’ve known until now might be wrong… and things could be even worse.
Thanks for actually reading the source. Here’s a better description of the actual scenario https://youtu.be/tnVWUIhQ8dE?si=q3yueWx9d5jyC76s
Does it mean, for instance, Europe will have the same temperature than Canada and north of US (same latitude)? Without speaking about all the other dramatic effects…
Basically, yes, winters in Europe are mild bcz of the ocean currents. England, in particular, will start having seriously cold winters. The weather will also no longer be stable if this happens.
You are fear mongering. England temps would drop by a few degrees C and still be much milder than say, Boston
Well for what it’s worth it seems like we’ve been getting fewer and fewer snow storms here in Boston. I know that’s more weather than climate, but it’s concerning.
The day after tomorrow?
Yeah but now it’s just tomorrow
No https://youtu.be/tnVWUIhQ8dE?si=q3yueWx9d5jyC76s
But it will mean colder Europe and a collapse of marine ecosystems probably…
And we’re still obsessed with economic growth/metastasis 😂
“Herp derp don’t worry! we’ll just keep injecting steroids and nutrients directly into your tumor. It’s the only way to save you. The tumor just needs to be so large that it will magically discover a way to keep metastasizing even larger… forever!”
Won’t that absolutely kill me even faster?
“Oh, yeah probably. Who fucking cares though, growth!”
I see lots of confusion and misinformation here. The gulf stream is not the AMOC. The AMOC does not start in the gulf stream, and the gulf stream will most definitely not shut down. Clarification here https://youtu.be/tnVWUIhQ8dE?si=q3yueWx9d5jyC76s
Fuck. What now?
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It’s not as bad as everyone here is making it out to be. https://youtu.be/tnVWUIhQ8dE?si=q3yueWx9d5jyC76s
Sure, it’s bad, but the AMOC is a small part of the gulf stream
