“We are moving closer (to the collapse), but we’re not sure how much closer, We are heading towards a tipping point.” –
Rene van Westen, a climate scientist and oceanographer at Utrecht University in the Netherlands; phys.org
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Citculation, or AMOC is a crucial ocean temperature regulation system; much like the Gulf Stream. Recently many news articles and studies have been published on the risks and potential timelines for some extremely catastrophic impacts upon Arctic ice, and extreme weather events around the entire world.
In late July, a study published in Nature Communications warned that a critical ocean system that brings warm water up the North Atlantic, also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), was at risk of collapse by 2095 for want of drastic emissions cuts.
While AMOC was already known to be at its slowest in 1,600 years, the latest research ushers in a much closer time estimation for a collapse between 2025 and 2095, with a central estimate of 2057. If proven correct, this scenario could see temperatures drop by 5 to 10 degrees in Europe, with devastating consequences for life as we know it. The Conversation sat down with physicist Peter Ditlevsen and his sister, the statistician Susanne Ditlevsen, to unpack findings that have stirred controversy in some quarters.
Atlantic collapse: Q&A with scientists behind controversial study predicting a colder Europe
When this global weather calamity—grossly fictionalized in the movie “The Day After Tomorrow”—may happen is “the million-dollar question, which we unfortunately can’t answer at the moment,” van Westen said. He said it’s likely a century away but still could happen in his lifetime. He just turned 30.
phys.org
Alarming—though estimates vary from next year all the way to 70 years off.
While AMOC was already known to be at its slowest in 1,600 years, the latest research ushers in a much closer time estimation for a collapse between 2025 and 2095, with a central estimate of 2057. If proven correct, this scenario could see temperatures drop by 5 to 10 degrees in Europe, with devastating consequences for life as we know it.
Phys.org
Conversely as temperatures drop in the Northern Hemisphere and Europe, in Australia and many tropical and other regions would experience major raises and more extreme weather than already…
Hopefully for all our sakes everything will just work out. I mean, you have an electric car now! What more can one person do?
Don’t worry he’s extremely competent and never fails anything.
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