Reposted by olivine
"The #collapse of the #AMOC would be catastrophic. How will we know when it’s coming?"
Well, that's the fun thing about tipping points in complex systems: since they're not actually real, they're limit values in graphs, not real-life events.
So we won't. We'll only know after, once it's happened.
newscientist.com
The collapse of the AMOC would be catastrophic. How will we know when it's coming? | New Scientist
Europe faces incredibly harsh winters and unrelenting droughts if the vital AMOC ocean current fails – but when disaster will strike and how bad it will be remains uncertain. Now there is an ambitious...