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HN headline is very click-baity. Context: Collapse around the middle of the century or as soon as 2025. (That’s a big error bar.) (CNN) A vital system of ocea
by DLA 3y ago
HN headline is very click-baity.
Context: Collapse around the middle of the century or as soon as 2025. (That’s a big error bar.)
(CNN) A vital system of ocean currents could collapse within a few decades if the world continues to pump out planet-heating pollution, scientists are warning – an event that would be catastrophic for global weather and “affect every person on the planet.”
A new study published Tuesday in the journal Nature, found that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Current – of which the Gulf Stream is a part – could collapse around the middle of the century, or even as early as 2025.
- mock-possum 3y agoYeah there is a bit of a gulf between “is collapsing” and “could collapse if”