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While climatologists say the collapse of the AMOC is a real threat, and that the new study raises a legitimate alarm that we may pass a key climate change tipping point sooner than previously ...
The impacts of an AMOC collapse would leave parts of the world unrecognizable. In the decades after a collapse, Arctic ice would start creeping south, and after 100 years, would extend all the way ...
In 2022, a major review of tipping points concluded an AMOC collapse would lower global temperatures by around 0.5 °C (0.90 °F) while regional temperatures in Europe would fall by between 4 °C (7.2 °F) and 10 °C (18 °F). [14] [100] A 2020 study assessed the effects of an AMOC collapse on farming and food production in Great Britain. [162]
“The collapse of the AMOC has huge implications, and we can’t just sit back and say, ‘I don’t know, maybe we’re wrong,’” Susanne Ditlevsen says, shrugging. “I hope we’re wrong ...
The collapse of critical ocean circulation could bring major droughts and freezing temperatures across Europe
[2] [3] Changes in the strength of the AMOC are thought to have been responsible for significant changes in past climate. [4] A collapse of the AMOC would have large consequences on the temperatures in the North-Atlantic region. It could lead to a reduction of air temperatures up to 10 °C.
If that happens, the new report suggests, northern Europe could cool by about 5.4 degrees Fahrenheit in a decade. ... Scientists once thought tipping points — like the collapse of AMOC — were ...
The potential collapse of the subpolar gyre in this scenario (middle). The collapse of the entire AMOC (bottom). Some climate models indicate that the deep convection in Labrador-Irminger Seas could collapse under certain global warming scenarios, which would then collapse the entire circulation in the North subpolar gyre. It is considered ...