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> Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse The title is egregiously exaggerated. It implies humanity will go extinct if this happens, when it obviously won't. The actual article doesn't even come anywhere close to making that claim.
> Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse The title is egregiously exaggerated. It implies humanity will go extinct if this happens, when it obviously won't. The actual article doesn't even come anywhere close to making that claim.
Somehow humanity survived 10,000 years of the last ice age. Without central heating. Of course, furs will be harder to come by.
> Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse The title is egregiously exaggerated. It implies humanity will go extinct if this happens, when it obviously won't. The actual article doesn't even come anywhere close to making that claim.
Somehow humanity survived 10,000 years of the last ice age. Without central heating. Of course, furs will be harder to come by.
Out of curiosity, what happened 1000 years ago to make it so weak? 1000 years ago is still human time scales - there were people living in europe and north america at the time. We have written records from the europeans at least. Its not like this was 100,000 years ago.
The Syrian refugee crisis meant something like a million people fleeing into Europe and it caused massive political upheavals.
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Somehow humanity survived 10,000 years of the last ice age. Without central heating. Of course, furs will be harder to come by.
Yeah but they didn’t have social media algorithms turning their brains into slush
> Bye Bye Humanity: The Potential AMOC Collapse The title is egregiously exaggerated. It implies humanity will go extinct if this happens, when it obviously won't. The actual article doesn't even come anywhere close to making that claim.
Somehow humanity survived 10,000 years of the last ice age. Without central heating. Of course, furs will be harder to come by.
I think the bigger concern is what sudden climate shifts might do to agriculture. If some farmland becomes much less viable on a wide basis, that might be much harder to adjust to on the short term.
I can't help but think of all the historical societies that collapsed due to even mild pressure on the food supply.
Is this real? https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/research-frontiers/how-a-swiss-... Says it’s not. Seems like this kind of disaster engagement bait that’s super popular now
The will-it-won’t-it collapse of the AMOC is something to keep an eye on. But there are other pressing climate change issues to address in the near term, such as food security, ecosystem degradation, and rising disease rates.
> Back in 2021, a study in Nature Geosciences showed that the AMOC was the weakest it’s been in more than 1,000 years. Out of curiosity, what happened 1000 years ago to make it so weak? 1000 years ago is still human time scales - there were people living in europe and north america at the time. We have written records from the europeans at least. Its not like this was 100,000 years ago.
We don't know enough.