• @TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
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    210 months ago

    AMOC is going to collapse, perhaps as soon as this year. If that happens, we will likely have to reduce our understanding of earths weather patterns to “Rain is (often) wet when it falls”.

    • Lee DunaOP
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      10 months ago

      British scientists disagree and say that the outcome had been “forced” and unrealistic

      Prof Jonathan Bamber, director of the Bristol Glaciology Centre at Bristol University, said: “They did this by imposing a huge freshwater forcing to the North Atlantic that is entirely unrealistic for even the most extreme warming scenario over the next century.

      https://lemmy.world/post/11827066

      I can’t say whether AMOC will collapse this year, but we can expect La Nina to come in August. We’ll see what happens in the next hurricane season