The Atlantic is cooling at record speed and nobody knows why
After over a year of record-high global sea temperatures, the Atlantic is cooling off more quickly than ever recorded, which could impact weather around the world
They know why.
Never believe these cowardly fucks when they try to absolve themselves of knowledge of environmental collapse.
i mean even if they know the cause of the cause that's not the same as knowing the cause if you get me
it's probably more accurate to say they don't know what climate change-induced process is causing the cooling but that's not as good a headline
This. I work at a research lab and we don't know shit about shit. Sure, we can gesture vaguely at anthropogenic climate change, but that doesnt get you published.
The fact that it's probably several different climate-induced processes causing the change makes it very difficult to establish causality. All we know definitively is that shits fucked
bypass paywall: https://archive.is/VQk3s
I would have assumed it was due to a weakening of the North Equatorial/Gulf Stream Current. the IPCC Sixth Assessment said that would be a thing that happens, though it probably wouldn't collapse entirely.
even so, a weakening would have dramatic impacts.
kinda surprised it isn't mentioned in the article as a "maybe" or whatever.
probably wouldn't collapse entirely
probably
The AMOC weakening was my first thought as well. In fact there was a previous study that predicted this could happen around 2025 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jul/25/gulf-stream-could-collapse-as-early-as-2025-study-suggests
And that’s… good? Right?
narrator: it was not good
The good news is that the Brits won’t have grey rainy winters anymore. Bad news is they’re gonna need steeper pitched roofs.
