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minus-squareFushuan [he/him]@lemmy.blahaj.zonelinkfedilinkarrow-up5·5 days agoNot the past few, I was remembering wrong that one. Apparently around 500 years it weakens but the last shutdown was 12k years ago: The most recent evidence of an AMOC shut-down is the Younger Dryas period, which occurred about 12,000 years ago. https://climate.sun.ac.za/uncategorized/amoc-shut-down-by-2100-should-important-new-results-be-used-to-update-an-approved-ipcc-consensus-on-risk/
minus-squaresilence7@slrpnk.netOPMlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·4 days agoThats sounding a lot more like what I remembered
Not the past few, I was remembering wrong that one. Apparently around 500 years it weakens but the last shutdown was 12k years ago:
The most recent evidence of an AMOC shut-down is the Younger Dryas period, which occurred about 12,000 years ago. https://climate.sun.ac.za/uncategorized/amoc-shut-down-by-2100-should-important-new-results-be-used-to-update-an-approved-ipcc-consensus-on-risk/
Thats sounding a lot more like what I remembered