A “collapse” of key Atlantic ocean currents would cause winter temperatures to plunge across northern Europe, overriding the warming driven by human activity.
The thing about AMOC collapse is that its partially triggered by Greenland glaciers melting so this would be something that would be irreversible. Even if we got all CO2 back out of the atmosphere it may not restart. Then we would be in a situation where big parts of Europe would be against carbon neutrality or reversing climate change, because it would make Europe even colder.
Global warming has accelerated significantly and by most metrics now, we’re looking to hit 4c by the end of the century. There’s a preprint of the paper the video is based on here if you’d prefer, but the video link opens to a time stamp with a graph you might find interesting.
Reversing climate change is a pipe dream and ‘carbon neutrality’ is little more than a marketing term. We have literally done everything possible as a species to cause this catastophic climate collapse we’re in, and basically fuck all to mitigate it.
It’s pointless to worry about how eco friendly the dying gasps of humanity are going to be, we’re not surviving this.
The thing about AMOC collapse is that its partially triggered by Greenland glaciers melting so this would be something that would be irreversible. Even if we got all CO2 back out of the atmosphere it may not restart. Then we would be in a situation where big parts of Europe would be against carbon neutrality or reversing climate change, because it would make Europe even colder.
Global warming has accelerated significantly and by most metrics now, we’re looking to hit 4c by the end of the century. There’s a preprint of the paper the video is based on here if you’d prefer, but the video link opens to a time stamp with a graph you might find interesting.
Reversing climate change is a pipe dream and ‘carbon neutrality’ is little more than a marketing term. We have literally done everything possible as a species to cause this catastophic climate collapse we’re in, and basically fuck all to mitigate it.
It’s pointless to worry about how eco friendly the dying gasps of humanity are going to be, we’re not surviving this.