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Gulf Stream current could collapse in 2025, plunging Earth into climate chaos: 'We were actually bewildered' (www.livescience.com)
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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] 31 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Goodbye Iceland my old friend.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Why is everything so fucked and we don't have any agency in changing it

[–] [email protected] -2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

This is giving me an existential crisis

[–] [email protected] 16 points 1 year ago

Maybe I don't get it, but as far as I understand, the golf stream brings hot air to north Europe. This is why you can live on Iceland while at the same latitude on the center of Canada is unhabitable.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I'm afraid that for a place like Iceland this does not mean warm and sunny, but more extremes in weather.

The number of extreme storms are increasing :

https://www.vedur.is/um-vi/frettir/456-vidvaranir-gefnar-ut-arid-2022

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

More bad news great

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Do you have anything else about the gulf stream that would be Iceland specific, I want to do graduate school there but this makes me question that