Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse

There was this movie, 'dont look up'

This scary, yet almost nothing on the news.

We're living in a fake world and pretending everything is fine.

Adam Curtis made a movie HyperNormalisation and we're living it also today.

Adam Curtis:

“HyperNormalisation” is a word that was coined by a brilliant Russian historian who was writing about what it was like to live in the last years of the Soviet Union. What he said, which I thought was absolutely fascinating, was that in the 80s everyone from the top to the bottom of Soviet society knew that it wasn’t working, knew that it was corrupt, knew that the bosses were looting the system, know that the politicians had no alternative vision. And they knew that the bosses knew that they knew that. Everyone knew it was fake, but because no one had any alternative vision for a different kind of society, they just accepted this sense of total fakeness as normal. And this historian, Alexei Yurchak, coined the phrase “HyperNormalisation” to describe that feeling.

If you read the article and that's the overall conclusion you came away with I'm not sure we read the same article. They're just pointing out that timing is uncertain, but the majority of diverse models show AMOC failure within a few generations and nearly all of them do if we extrapolate continued CO2 release growth.

I saw this movie! It was awesome.

When that wave washed over New York, awesome! The freezing helicopter, woot!

I also liked the South Park parody.

>The AMOC will decline substantially, that’s virtually certain and the consequences will be extremely grave.

All serious experts (including the nature study you linked a popsci article about) agree this is a problem that will have a devastating impact on humanity in the future. We're just quibbling about how devastating and how soon.