Scientists are sounding the alarm that a crucial component of the planet’s climate system is in gradual decline and could one day reach a tipping point that would radically alter global weather patterns.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a system of ocean currents that circulate water in the Atlantic Ocean like a conveyor belt, helping to redistribute heat and regulate global and regional climates. New research, however, warns that the AMOC is weakening under a warming climate, and could potentially suffer a dangerous and abrupt collapse with worldwide consequences.

“This is bad news for the climate system and humanity,” researchers from Utrecht University’s Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research wrote in a new study published in the journal Science Advances.

  • @[email protected]
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    289 months ago

    Why do you think the ultra rich are building themselves doomsday bunkers? Conflict and disaster are coming.

    They believe the science they’re asking you to ignore. They also believe they’re not planning to stop anything.

    • Which shows why obsecenely rich people need to be kept at bay. Anyone who builds a doomsday bunker while profiting off the destruction of the climate is a genocidal mass murderer who enjoys killing people.

      Living in a doomsday bunker is so much fucking worse than living in a sustainable society, while being just very rich instead of obsecenely rich.

      • @m13
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        39 months ago

        It’s not just immorality of it, it’s the absolutely fucked logic of it. How many of them have actually thought through the scenario in which they have to actually use their doomsday bunker? How long will their supplies last? How many people they pay to help them would still do so after the value of money drops to nothing? They won’t last long.

        • @[email protected]
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          29 months ago

          The first one gets shock

          The second one gets attention

          The third one develops the pattern

          Suddenly redistributing wealth is important for our economy and society more than it was before the first.

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      9 months ago

      Russia becomes the most fertile country if global warming occurs