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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 5 days ago

Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for hundreds of years, study finds

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Collapse of key Atlantic current could bring extreme drought to Europe for hundreds of years, study finds

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silence7@slrpnk.netM to Climate - truthful information about climate, related activism and politics.@slrpnk.netEnglish · 5 days ago
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Scientists modeled Europe's future if a key Atlantic current were to collapse and found that the continent faces a much drier future.
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    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/

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      Thats sounding a lot more like what I remembered

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