New research warns of a possible collapse in Atlantic Ocean currents due to climate change. That could fundamentally alter global weather patterns.

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.

  • 👍Maximum Derek👍English
    461·
    9 months ago

    The gulf stream is weakening and could collapse too. I’m tired of living in interesting times.

    • Szymon@lemmy.caEnglish
      28·
      9 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.

      • tryptaminev 🇵🇸 🇺🇦 🇪🇺@feddit.de
        14·
        9 months ago

        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.

          • Szymon@lemmy.caEnglish
            2·
            9 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.

        • m13@lemmy.world
          3·
          9 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.