Scientists are sounding the alarm that a crucial component of the planet’s climate system is in gradual decline and could one day reach a tipping point that would radically alter global weather patterns.
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, is a system of ocean currents that circulate water in the Atlantic Ocean like a conveyor belt, helping to redistribute heat and regulate global and regional climates. New research, however, warns that the AMOC is weakening under a warming climate, and could potentially suffer a dangerous and abrupt collapse with worldwide consequences.
“This is bad news for the climate system and humanity,” researchers from Utrecht University’s Institute for Marine and Atmospheric Research wrote in a new study published in the journal Science Advances.
Is there a point your trying to make or are you trying absolve yourself and others in north americ of guilt?
Also why bring up Canada, but let’s keep using it as an example.
Yes, it’s cold in Canada (That’s where I live) but we can stay warm with renewable energies, an example in my own home is I have solar panels that power my heat pumps to warm/cool my house, and I’m not polluting, even in our cold Canadian winters.