New over at climatetippingpoints.info: 'News Explainer: Is the AMOC closer to collapse than thought?'

The first of a new occassional 'News Explainer' series, briefly summarising recent news on climate tipping points (and checking how well the media reported it).

First up, a paper by Portmann et al. constraining future AMOC decline, but does it show that collapse is more likely than thought?

https://climatetippingpoints.info/2026/05/06/news-explainer-is-the-amoc-closer-to-collapse-than-thought/

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🌎 AMOC likely to weaken 51% (±8%) by 2100 – far more than model ensemble mean (32±37%) according to new science paper. Observational constraints + ridge regression correct South Atlantic salinity bias, bringing tipping point closer.

🔗 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adx4298

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Climate was cheating on you,
no shared future plans

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"Continued global heating could trigger climate tipping points, leading to a cascade of further tipping points and feedback loops ... This would lock the world into a new and hellish “hothouse Earth” climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach. ... The assessment, which was published in the journal One Earth, synthesised recent scientific findings on climate feedback loops and 16 tipping elements." https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/feb/11/point-of-no-return-hothouse-earth-global-heating-climate-tipping-points

The risk of a hothouse Earth trajectory
Ripple, William J. et al.
One Earth, 101565 https://www.cell.com/one-earth/fulltext/S2590-3322%2825%2900391-4

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Tim Lenton, Professor im Englischen Exeter schrieb ein Buch über positive Kipppunkte "Positive Tipping Points - How to fix the Climate Crisis". Der Spiegel berichtete darüber.
Der Kipppunkt für Solarenergie sei bereits überschritten und Deutschland hat hierbei eine Schlüsselrolle gespielt.
Inzwischen will China die Vorreiterschaft bei erneuerbaren Energien übernehmen - auch wenn sie aktuell auch noch Kohle nutzen. Susanne Götze und Annika Joeres schreiben in ihrem Buch "Die MilliardenLobby", dass China so massiv in Solarenergie investiert, weil es von anderen (autokratischen) Ländern unabhängig werden will.
"...dem Klima, meint Lenton, sei es letztlich egal, ob es an deutschem oder an chinesischem Solarstrom genese."

https://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/klimawandel-und-energiewende-forscher-gibt-hoffnung-wende-zum-guten-a-1a12ab2d-4b71-4ea5-af6b-5f6510ada979

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