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Zen@biglemmowski.win to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago

'Cliff-Like' Collapse of Critical Current System More Likely Than Thought: Study

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'Cliff-Like' Collapse of Critical Current System More Likely Than Thought: Study

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Zen@biglemmowski.win to World News@lemmy.mlEnglish · 1 year ago
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'Cliff-Like' Collapse of Atlantic Currents More Likely Than Thought: Study
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"The new study adds significantly to the rising concern about an AMOC collapse in the not-too-distant future," said one scientist. "We will ignore this at our peril."
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    Is it just me, or does anyone else who sees temperatures in degrees Fahrenheit (without a Celsius conversion) in a summary of a scientific report like this just automatically consider it an American fluff piece and click-bait to be ignored?

    You should read the actual report https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189.

    It might be my naive reading, but it seems that flooding the ocean with 4-5% of the gulf stream flow with fresh water from glacier melt (I think that’s a lot) will cause a shut down in the year 3700 or so. Even I, as a climate change believer, think that’s a little too far out there to be considered germane.

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      no i am one of those people. No serious science article uses anything but metric.

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        Graph A (https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adk1189) just has model year and not the actual year in the common era. I just assumed all of it was extrapolation from today, which shows a cliff in about 1700 years, so give or take 3700CE.

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