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What effects would the collapse of this current have on regional and global climate? I assume the effects for Europe would be substantial but what about the rest of the world?

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Basically it would make for a colder Europe and warmer tropics. Harsher storms in north america likely because of the change in warmth at the tropics.

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This is obviously bad for the environment in Europe etc but as a joke: After spending 10+ days in 38-45 degrees weather with a cold night of 33, I’m all for colder Europe!

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Checkout the movie An Inconvenient Truth. Al Gore talks about Ice Age cold.

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This is from a paper another user submitted in the lemmy.ml collapse community:

An abrupt AMOC collapse would cause profound and abrupt shifts in regional weather patterns and water cycles.

An AMOC collapse under warming reduces the growth suitability of three major staple crops – wheat, maize and rice, which provide over 50% of global calories.

It’s worth reading through that whole section. TL; DR: Nothing good.

Edited to add this horrifying graph from the paper.

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It says page not found.

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Yeah, I’m not sure why, but the link I posted keeps breaking. Try this:

https://read.oecd.org/10.1787/abc5a69e-en

If that doesn’t work, you can do a search on www.oecd-ilibrary.org for “climate tipping points.”

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Some of the biggest unknown impacts are ecological. This is such a large area of the ocean effects could be absolutely disastrous.

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I call dibs on getting rescued by Dennis Quaid.

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Kinda funny that that the thumbnail is literally more TwiXer shit.

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Lemmy and Washington Post gift links don’t play well together.

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