Renewable Revolution

Agelbert NOTE: This article, over a year old now, has valuable information about what will happen, IN OUR TIME, when, not if, the AMOC shuts down. The  East Coast of the USA would almost immediately experience a sea level rise of at least 80 centimeters (i.e. 2 feet and 7.5 inches) . 🌊 Besides all the catastrophic flooding, it would cost billions of dollars just to raise the level of the port facilities alone.

Topographic map of the Nordic Seas and subpolar basins with schematic circulation of surface currents (solid curves) and deep currents (dashed curves) that form a portion of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC). Colors of curves indicate approximate temperatures. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation


Scientists have recently begun to re-examine a scary question: Will a crucial ocean current shut down?

ROBINSON MEYER  JAN 7, 2017

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But then she went on. From what we know right now, the possibility that AMOC will shut down remains a “potential impact of climate change with significant consequences.”

“Yet other impacts are much more certain” to result from climate change, she said, listing “increased surface temperatures, sea level rise, and ice melt.” While some harms, like those of a collapsing AMOC, are still up for debate, it is almost completely certain that climate change will bring serious consequences for us in our time. Rampant drought, drier rivers, and vanished 🌊 coasts are all ours to inherit.

Full article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/01/what-a-real-debate-looks-like-in-climate-science/512444/