AMOC is like a massive ocean circulation conveyor belt that moves warm and cold water around the Atlantic. It's failing, and that's very bad.

Don’t think I need to summarize this one. This should be world news right now. This is bad news for everyone.

  • ikidd@lemmy.worldEnglish
    33·
    5 months ago

    So when I get to the section titled “what can we do?” I just stop reading, because what’s the fucking point?

    • NocturnalMorning@lemmy.worldOP
      4·
      5 months ago

      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.

  • nshibj@lemmy.world
    25·
    5 months ago

    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.

  • Allonzee@lemmy.world
    5·
    5 months ago

    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!”