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What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean to the AMOC?
- boesboes 3y agoAlso being discussed here https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864319 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36864319
- Gravityloss 3y agoThanks. This realclimate blog post is very well summarized and easy to read compared to the actual article.
- ttonkytonk 3y ago"Conclusion Timing of the critical AMOC transition is still highly uncertain, but increasingly the evidence points to the risk being far greater than 10 % during this century – even rather worrying for the next few decades. The conservative IPCC estimate, based on climate models which are too stable and don’t get the full freshwater forcing, is in my view outdated now. I side with the recent Climate Tipping Points report by the OECD, which advised: 'Yet, the current scientific evidence unequivocally supports unprecedented, urgent and ambitious climate action to tackle the risks of climate system tipping points.'"