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Prof. Stefan Rahmstorf Apr 11, 2024

Is the #AMOC approaching a tipping point?
Here's my take after researching this topic for over 30 years.
Open access, peer-reviewed, in full colour & understandable for non-experts.
https://tos.org/oceanography/article/is-the-atlantic-overturning-circulation-approaching-a-tipping-point

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Andrew Apr 11, 2024

@rahmstorf
"A full AMOC collapse would be a massive, planetary-scale disaster. We really want to prevent this from happening."

I don't think you can be any more explicit than that for policymakers

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notsoloud

@Shivviness
The more limited subpolar gyre collapse "typically happens as soon as the year 2040 and for moderate emission scenarios...[it] will shift tropical rainfall belts"

"full shutdown of the AMOC would have truly devastating consequences for humanity"
“strong reduction of crop yield and pasture” in Europe, "weakening of the African and Asian monsoons", likely ecosystem collapse in the northern Atlantic"

@rahmstorf