the journal Nature only this week told the public there’s no evidence ‘we’re kind of past the point of no return in terms of devastating impacts’
Scientists warn not to head the scaremongering nonsense published in the journal Nature this week suggested the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation was likely to collapse by 2057, and possibly as early as 2025.
paper published in the journal Nature this week, hhe public perception of climate science.as had its methods criticised as oversimplistic and its conclusions overdramatised, leading to concern they could undermine the public perception of climate science.
António Guterres, the UN secretary-general, said the new temperature records should prompt swift action to cut emissions. “Climate change is here. It is terrifying. And it is just the beginning,” he said. “The era of global warming has ended; the era of global boiling has arrived.”
Some possible impacts of AMOC collapse were imagined in the 2004 film The Day After Tomorrow, starring Dennis Quaid, although the film was dismissed as largely unrealistic.
What the Met office said about the paper
“As far as we’re concerned in the Met Office, the paper is far too simplistic,” said Richard Betts, the Head of the Climate Impacts at the Met Office Hadley Centre.
He added: “There’s still no evidence that we’re kind of past the point of no return in terms of devastating impacts.
“On the basis of one paper, don’t despair. Penny Holliday, a marine physicist at t warnings about AMOC’s imminent collapse were a distraction from action on near-term climate change.
National Oceanography Centre said:
Penny Holliday, a marine physicist at the National Oceanography Centre said warnings about AMOC’s imminent collapse were not very likely.
“The AMOC collapse is not very likely. So I don’t think it’s the thing to focus on,” said Ms Holliday, who is the UK’s lead on a global research project into the subpolar AMOC that has been running since 2014.
She added: “You might worry about an asteroid hitting the Earth. It could happen. But it’s not very likely. So there are other things to worry about.”
The assessment of the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is that the AMOC is unlikely to collapse this century, and scientists are not certain that it will fail at all even if the climate warms.
