Southern Ocean current reverses for first time, signalling risk of climate system collapse

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1. How could this be? We were told it was all a hoax.

2. …well it was a good run yall

3. Good luck out there.

4. We really did have everything, didn’t we?

5. Neat.

   *goes and prays to the gods because at this point, migjt as well*

6. I was hoping we had another 25 years.

7. Everyone enjoy this last year before global crop collapse. Enjoy your good meals. Enjoy your fine wines. Learn to grow your own food.

   As the global elite has declared, let them eat cake.

8. Just like the Russia cilollusion hoax!!! We’ll beat on Trump for 4 years about fake climate change.

   This is the fourth time i’ve typed this reply to a similar article on reddit today. Organized bullshit.

9. Uhm.. there have to be more sources for this .. ? Could we post some ?

10. I honestly hope a country big enough to not get pushed around takes initiative to start releasing sulfur aerosols into the atmosphere, at least slow down the collapse til we have a better handle on it.

    To anyone that says “no, we shouldn’t run experiments like that, there’s all sorts of unintended consequences”, I’ll just add that:

    Volcanos release huge amounts of sulphur when they go off and it provably cools the climate.

    Sulphur aerosols break down rapidly, so we could put out foot on the break and return to previous levels really quickly.

    And lastly, even if we don’t do anything, we’re already in the middle of an experiment on our climate, seeing what will happen as we pour more and more greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. The least we could do, since that trend doesn’t look like it’s stopping, is attempt other ways to remediate and offset the effect we’re already causing.

11. Oh oh. Headline is severely misleading.
    It says that one of the southern ocean currents reversed course for a few months back in 2023.

12. This is why the weather has been extra crazy over the last few months. Welp, we did our best. Now we have to suffer the consequences.

13. This whole time I was thinking AMOC was going to be the main issue.

    Fawkkkkkk.

14. Do just wanna flag that I’m searching and not seeing any mainstream or even left or big science paper reporting this yet. It’s alleged to be a claim from one research team at a Spanish university.

15. Just for everyone wanting sources. [Here is the link to the study.](https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2500440122)

    This phrasing is particularly relevant to this discussion.

    “We are witnessing a true reversal of ocean circulation in the Southern Hemisphere… the SMOC is not just weakening, but has reversed.”

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