Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

Post by t0bia_s » Mon, Feb 09, 2026, 5:08 PM UTC

rcxdude wrote: post #100

t0bia_s wrote: post #99

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You do not know anything about my power use. Heat pump needs electric energy to work. Which is not cheap and also use CO2 to produce.

I don't need to know anything specific about your life for that to be true, which is why "what about breathing" is so ridiculous. And heat pumps even powered by fossil fuels emit less CO2, let alone the many renewable options that reduce the CO2 released by orders of magnitude.

Post by lucyjojo » Sat, Feb 14, 2026, 1:22 AM UTC

roenxi wrote: post #50

PinkMilkshake wrote: post #43

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> humans cope pretty well over a wide variety of temperatures. That's not the problem, though. The problem is almost nothing else can. Livestock, staple crops, pollinating insects, etc.

How big a problem is that over a multi-decade time horizon? There is a pretty big variation in average temperatures by country [0]. Somehow People everywhere from Thailand to Greenland manage to find food. All else failing it is a possibility to trade for calories. Let alone technology improvements that might save the day by accident. I mean, it might make places uninhabitable over the course of a few generations, bu…