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No I am just noting that the AMOC bistability literature is decades long.
by oceanthrowaway 3y ago
No I am just noting that the AMOC bistability literature is decades long.
- bhouston 3y agoSo is the climate change literature, it stretched back decades before we had concrete evidence that it was happening. Just because something is long predicted to be a risk by experts in a field, doesn't mean its likelihood of happening goes down. I right read about AMOC back in 1997 while in university. It was fascinating and frightening back then. Still relevant today. It would be sad if it did actually end up happening in my lifetime, but humans are notoriously bad at reacting to bad things that might happening in the future - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons. We tend to only really react once the bad thing has happened.