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Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds

www.theguardian.com Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds

Collapse in system of currents that helps regulate global climate would be at such speed that adaptation would be impossible

Atlantic Ocean circulation nearing ‘devastating’ tipping point, study finds

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Just to be clear, we are well beyond the tipping point, have fallen off the cliff, and watching the Atlantic currents collapse is like seeing rocks hitting the ground before you do. "Oh, look, the ground approaches rapidly, and everything that hits it at this speed will be pulverized."

We are a plague on this blue ball spinning through space
- Not really a problem for the blue ball though, they've been through worse.
  
  We're really a plague on ourselves...
  
  Inanimate objects don't have problems. Not very insightful.

Maybe let's consider fixing the climate? Just a thought
- But then a handful of very wealthy people would have slightly less money in the short term. So billions must die.
- But what about the economy? The profits? The stock market?
  /S
  
  Will no one think of the quarterly earnings reports? What the hell is wrong with you people?

Not until any of this directly impacts people, like with famine, water scarcity, war, or panic from civilization collapse ... no one will care about what's going on with the world's oceans.
- And then they'll beg their leaders to do what can no longer be done. One of the reasons we're heading down a very bad timeline is that many people really don't seem to get the notion of a problem that must be fixed before its effects hit, and can't be fixed once the effects are felt.
  
  Aren't people already begging leaders to help? But they're not listening?
- It already does. Just not so much in the countries that are most responsible for the pollution.
  
  Western nations will realize it soon enough.
  “What surprised us was the rate at which tipping occurs,” said the paper’s lead author, René van Westen, of Utrecht University. “It will be devastating.”

I'm in FLORIDA the BASTION of FREE SPEECH and it's ILLEGAL to blame this on CC!

Isn't this one the one that when it's going we have livable temperatures in Europe and North America, but when it stops we get an ice age with glaciers and all that?
I wonder what the timeline is for something like that. Like how long between this current collapsing and glaciers making it to the great lakes?
- Yes and no. It will have the greatest effect on the northern most counties like Sweden Finland Ireland, etc by at most 5-6C. France will be fine https://youtu.be/tnVWUIhQ8dE?si=3WHusDe8X3_Q35Ah
  
  Gotcha like always I am told that there is a problem coming but no one knows when exactly or how bad it will be or what I should do when it happens.
  Yeps, life is good.
  
  Ah right on, thanks for this video. Seems it was referring to the same thing I was thinking of but the sources for that other thing were wrong.

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There's lots of misinformation on this topic. Yes, this stopping would be bad for Europe but hardly any apocalypse scenario. Here a scientist break it down : https://youtu.be/tnVWUIhQ8dE?si=3WHusDe8X3_Q35Ah

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