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...

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 202 points 3 years ago (44 children)

I'm so tired of living in a world of impending doom. This is hell.

  • source
  • hideshow 44 child comments
  • [–] 67 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    The phrase “may you live in interesting times” is a curse.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 28 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    "Despite being so common in English as to be known as the "Chinese curse", the saying is apocryphal, and no actual Chinese source has ever been produced." - Wikipedia

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Oh is this a thing? The phrase has been on my mind lately and I’m like no, it’s a fucking curse. Thanks for the trivia!!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 61 points 3 years ago (20 children)

    And they know how to fucking fix it but don't want to

    It'd be like if in the movie Armageddon the government just said "Eh let's see if it really will be that bad if it hits us"

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 20 child comments
  • [–] 54 points 3 years ago (11 children)
  • [–] 11 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    Yes but without the part where they tried

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • [–] -2 points 3 years ago (8 children)

    We haven't gotten to that point yet

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 8 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago* (7 children)

    Without some sort of violent revolution, we won't, or time runs out but it's not a movie and there's no ship to another planet.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [+] -6 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Great. That's exactly what we need now - more violence

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 6 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Revolutions take over where reason stops. The people in power have the means to do the right thing, but sometimes they look out for a few people and will destroy thousands. That's not a good option, as people get more desperate

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] -4 points 3 years ago* (1 child)

    Climate change is not something that has a simple solution to it and governments just refuse to do so for whatever reason. That's a naive view that ignores all the complexity of this issue.

    For example: stopping all carbon emissions is not going to stop climate change. Not only do you need to become carbon-neutral but you also need to get all the excessive carbon out of the atmosphere. How?

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Why the extreme? Cutting back and investing in things that are better should be a mandate, not an idea or option. And certainly we cannot allow an administration to roll things backwards just because someone bribed them donated to their campaign

  • source
  • parent
  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    If there's ever a time when it's justified, it's when our very existence is at stake.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [+] -10 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    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.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
  • [–] 59 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    Good news! Soon the doom won't be impending!

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 3 child comments
  • [–] -3 points 3 years ago (9 children)

    The doom depends on where you live. Florida? Yup, probably, but you where already living in hell. Europe? Iced up North Sea, really snowy north, big ice caps, Spain and portugal getting more cool...doesn't sound that bad, to me personally.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 9 child comments
  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago (7 children)

    Michigan's Upper Peninsula is one of the places least likely to be affected by climate change, based on current models. In the US anyway.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 7 child comments
  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Mostly florida, as the "AMOC" transports the heat away from florida. Could very well be, that a stoppage of the AMOC would create a Hypercane and completely wreck everything in Florida. Cuba could also be absolutely done for. Canada would also probably have a LOT more snow - the Soutpole however would probably stop existing and what exactly is going to happen to Brazil is a complete unknown. Some simulations show the insta death of the rest of the rain forest. Some simulations actually show the opposite. However, Europe, Africa and Asia probably would see a lot lower temps - what exactly that would mean for the Climate in those areas is also highly speculative - however, it's something that happened quite often throughout the history of earth. North America however has lots of other parts liveable, when Florida is "dead" and basically the Sahara.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 5 child comments
  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Happened quite often in the past…over the course of thousands of years. Man-made global warming is a very different animal.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    You are the first person I've seen recognize the legitimate fear that these climate issues could result in hypercanes.

    Hurricanes of a size and fury as to not be measurable on current scale, Whose devastation could stretch across half a continent.

  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment