What is happening in the Atlantic Ocean to the AMOC?

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[–]ActuallyNot[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

A refresher on one of the upcoming dangerous tipping points for climate change. Hopefully several decades away, but there's a worryingly high possibility that it could hit in the next couple or few.

[–]Threesrwild 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

And man can do exactly what to stop it? Nothing, this is going to happen no matter what we do. There have been seven major extinction events, that we known of on earth, you don’t think there will be more?

[–]ActuallyNot[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

We're almost certainly seeing a mass extinction.

But there's still different degrees of how bad it will be and how fast that we can influence.