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Gulf Stream current could collapse in 2025, plunging Earth into climate chaos: 'We were actually bewildered' (www.livescience.com)

submitted 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Researchers have predicted the collapse of the AMOC could happen any time between 2025 and 2095 — far sooner than previous predictions, although not all scientists are convinced.

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago (8 children)

We haven't gotten to that point yet

[–] [email protected] 0 points 11 months ago* (last edited 11 months ago) (7 children)

Without some sort of violent revolution, we won't, or time runs out but it's not a movie and there's no ship to another planet.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (6 children)

Great. That's exactly what we need now - more violence

[–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

If there's ever a time when it's justified, it's when our very existence is at stake.

[–] [email protected] -3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

Climate change is not an existential threat to humanity

[–] [email protected] 1 points 11 months ago

To humanity? Probably not. To billions of people? Definitely yes.

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