"The research found “an almost complete loss of stability over the last century” of the currents that researchers call the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). The currents are already at their slowest point in at least 1,600 years, but the new analysis shows they may be nearing a shutdown.
Such an event would have catastrophic consequences around the world, severely disrupting the rains that billions of people depend on for food in India, South America and West Africa; increasing storms and lowering temperatures in Europe; and pushing up the sea level off eastern North America. It would also further endanger the Amazon rainforest and Antarctic ice sheets."
Well, that’s several hundred million dead then.
I literally have no words insulting enough for the infectious weeping sores upon humanity that have blighted us by their pointlessly cruel inaction.
Please no
well, it’s happening today for people in Greece and Turkey, California, China which have seen enormous climate disasters in the past month. that’s the thing - it’s going to always be happening somewhere else until it happens to you. that’s what collapse looks like, shrinking islands of relative stability and billions of people trying to flee the regions which fall outside of them.
gotcha, yeah. it’s not gonna be a sudden collapse thing with the AMOC but just an accelerating trend of weakening. another of those gradual worsenings that we’ve proven so unwilling to respond to so far with climate change.
endanger the Amazon rainforest
That thing is still around?
and Antarctic ice sheets
Those are still around, too?
It feels weird being the generation that is going to watch those things disappear
flense the billionaires
