A new statistical model has predicted that the collapse of Atlantic Ocean currents is likely to occur this century. The results would cause catastrophic temperature drops in the Northern Hemisphere, but other scientists are not so sure.

Researchers have predicted the collapse of the AMOC could happen any time between 2025 and 2095 — far sooner than previous predictions, although not all scientists are convinced.

=====

What if…

  • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
    111·
    1 year ago

    Carbon is causing global warming. We know how to fix global warming because we are causing it, we just have to stop doing it.

    This article is about global cooling which is bizarre and not something we expected would be happening. We haven’t got a clue why it’s doing that. It maybe natural, or it maybe it’s something we’ve done in a complicated way, but we don’t know so we don’t know how to fix it.

    If this is just an ice age why may as well burn all the coal now to try and stave it off.

    Although in reality I think this needs a lot more research before we do anything because this announcement makes no sense within our current understanding of the environmental science.

    • xohshoo@lemmy.world
      8·
      1 year ago

      Umm, no. Go read it again.

      Global warming shuts off the current, so the warm air doesn’t shuttle north, causing local cooling, not global