In my opinion, AMOC collapse has always been a red herring, like sea level rise before it. There are other far more immediate and existential consequences of climate change. Among them are heatwaves, fires, floods, storms, droughts, disease, ecosystem collapse and fascism.
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-simulations-nightmare-atlantic-current-shutdown.html
https://phys.org/news/2025-02-simulations-nightmare-atlantic-current-shutdown.html
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tldr:
no change in data, only in how you name the result.
"almost total shutdown"
vs.
"respectable 10 - 20% of heat transport will remain in case of thermohaline pump failure"
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/02/how-will-media-report-on-this-new-amoc-study/
Hang on to the front, for this roller coaster is going to get weird.
Or are you thinking of voting in whatever is left in your democracy?
https://www.bettedangerous.com/p/please-share-executive-summary-of?r=1tfo38
Mind you ...
I assume existential threats apply to oligarchs as well?
https://www.realclimate.org/index.php/archives/2025/02/how-will-media-report-on-this-new-amoc-study/
If the environment has been degraded for 100 years, is that not a human-cause climate change?
People can see the smog, the yellow rivers, the heat shimmers from the roads.
It's a serious problem for the country, where more than 70% of the land is covered in forest.
https://www.thebarentsobserver.com/news/finnish-forests-from-co2-sink-to-co2-source/423738
https://climateandeconomy.com/2025/02/27/27th-feb-2025-todays-round-up-of-climate-news/
Not to mention declining food production in many bread basket areas of the world.
https://bsky.app/profile/anarcheco.bsky.social/post/3ldt4ftsboc23
There won’t be enough billionaires to go around.!
Now a shutdown in the last 1/4 century is less likely, but longterm threat remains; +weakening has severe impacts.
-Flooding in England
-Droughts jn China
-Loss of snow packs in mountains around the world, leading to water shortages in summer
1. Plants losing appetite for carbon dioxide amid effects of warming climate.
2. More and more February warm records in this eternal record warmth in northern Norway yesterday.
etc
https://climateandeconomy.com/2025/02/27/27th-feb-2025-todays-round-up-of-climate-news/
- fires in Canada, California
-Hotter winters causing infestations of insect parasites ( like the pine bark beetle) destroying trees
- crop shortages from fires and hot weather in Ukraine and Russia