I remember watching a breakdown of this during Covid lockdowns and then having a full on come apart about it which folks shrugged off

I have very shallow understanding - I thought the gulf stream collapse would only affect Europe - freezing it. Would it also freeze NA?

Also somehow Brazil would become a desert and Sahara back into jungle but not on the same time scale as Europe freezing over.

Do you have a reading mode button at the top? I just enable reading mode (But in Waterfox) and it starts to function without paywalls or popups.

He's 79, and by all accounts not in the best of health. He'll escape it.

The working plan is that their wealth + AI will allow them to survive well enough, without having to deal with us pesky poors anymore.

It's not hard to imagine. Just imagine you had zero moral compass, and all the resources they do. What logically makes sense? No, not taking care of everyone. Bigger fence, not bigger table. And eventually the necessities of life, like not having a drone explode you, will only be availabile behind the fence.

Unfortunately, neither will we.

IDK if you are joking, but if this pump stops working, Norway is kind of fucked, and will become as hostile to live in as Siberia, and most harbors will become unusable most of the year, as the water will freeze around Norway.

Iirc that's already started. All the growing zones have moved further north or south from where they used to be when I was a kid (back in the early 60's).

While that is true. If the Atlantic ocean current stops, the poles will freeze, and start a new ice age in northern Europe and North America, while also boiling the equator.

The most frightening climate movie is still "Don't look up"

Exactly! If it doesn’t benefit them publicly before the next election, no government will act.

At the time of the film's release, it offered a new theory about what could happen to Earth's climate in the future. Sure many scientist just laughed to this scenario. The funny thing is that AMOC research started in the same year. All we have is data from 2004 to the present, of course that is not enough to draw conclusions about our future climate.

Earth's climate is complex, studying AMOC alone is not enough. And one of the biggest problem is that there are other MOCs, not just AMOC, any changes to AMOC will impact other MOCs. And there is a new research called the SAMOC Initiative started 5 yr ago.

There's nothing scientifically inaccurate about that part IMO. There's positive feedback loops hiding everywhere. The bad things come in bursts. For example, melting ice releases trapped methane, causing higher temperatures and more melting ice. Who knows how fast this goes

What about "Aging Movie is Ominously Current" or AMOC for short?

Probably because most people wouldn't know what that acronym stood for.

... It needs to have a title that Americans might actually read.

You know, half a football field, approximately 8 hamburgers, instead of actual measurements?

We're on average 5th graders, as far as reading ability goes.

For the clicks.

'Scientist warn that environmental acronym is fucked' is a headline everyone has learned to tune out.

But if maybe Jake Gyllenhaal can save us.. I mean, now you want to know more, right?

I need a filter to eliminate any science article with quotes in the title

Compulsory "If you've been paying attention we have known about this and every other catastrophic event since at least the 1970's. We aren't listening to the right people."

Millions if not billions of people are going to be severely at risk and even die. The vast majority of these people will be brown or black. The majority of these people will be children.

We as a species should be ashamed putting the well being of a small few over the majority.

The optimism is we will science our way out of this. Humanity is like a monkeys paw.

So I guess what I'm saying is on the individual level everyone open their eyes don't be a dick and leave the world better than you came into it. Beyond that, sit back and enjoy the show no one really knows what they're doing but the majority of us are doing our best.

It's the next generations problem, and I ain't breeding so what do I have to worry about 😂😭

It was shitty the first fucking time. We don't need to make that crap again.

Turbines extract energy from flowing fluids. They'd make it worse, if anything.

the amount of energy involved in the AMOC exceeds the entire output of our civilization, dude

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