A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggests | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/02/climate/atlantic-circulation-collapse-timing/index.html
by Creative_soja
A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggests | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2024/08/02/climate/atlantic-circulation-collapse-timing/index.html
by Creative_soja
3 comments
O great my worst nightmare.
> But the new research, which has been peer-reviewed but not yet published in a journal, uses a state-of-the-art model to estimate when it could collapse, suggesting a shutdown could happen between 2037 and 2064.
> This research suggests it’s more likely than not to collapse by 2050.
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> “Until a few years ago, we were discussing whether it would happen at all, as a kind of low-probability, high-impact risk,” Rahmstorf told CNN. “And now it looks a lot more likely than just a few years ago that this will happen. Now people are starting to close in on when it will happen.”
Pretty sure this is what happened in the movie “The Day After Tomorrow” right? Whelp as a Canadian I know I should be moving in the next few years now