This again? Hasn’t it been at a tipping point for at least a decade, and nothing happens?
Scientists Issue Grim Warning: Atlantic Ocean ‘At A Tipping Point’
Many of us have a way of taking the oceans for granted. A place to surf, perhaps, or to enjoy other water sports, or simply admire while sitting on the beach. Those who make their livings in far harsher ocean conditions would feel rather differently, however, and so do climate scientists, who warn that the Atlantic Ocean could reach a critical point from which it’s going to be impossibly difficult to recover. Though we often think of the ocean as separate and distinct from life on land, the thing to remember is that about 71% of the planet is covered in water, the vast majority of which is ocean water. The Atlantic Ocean, the second largest on Earth, covers 41.1 million square miles, about one-fifth of the surface of the planet. This is why it takes so long for an aircraft carrier to cross the Atlantic, and it also makes it a critical barometer and provider of life on Earth.
Wow, could that be any more patronizing? But, then, most Warmists are not particularly known for having a solid foundation in Earth sciences
Tragically, its role in safeguarding that life is in increasing jeopardy because of climate change. A study from René M. van Westen et al., published in Hydrology and Earth System Sciences in November 2025, sounds the alarm: “The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is expected to weaken or even collapse under anthropogenic climate change.” Humanity, according to the report, is causing the AMOC, a system of currents that the Met Office likens to “a conveyor belt” regulating the temperature of ocean water, to deteriorate. The study created several potential scenarios to detail what might happen if this system was lost, and the possible impact on life on Earth in a broad sense is chilling to think about. Let’s take a closer look at the AMOC and what the impact of climate change on it potentially means for the Earth.
Wait, I thought we were told it wasn’t slowing down? Or was it speeding up? No one knows, but, unsurprisingly, the study’s computer models tell them doom is coming, but, you know
Antarctic Collapse 9,000 Years Ago Hints at White Continent’s Future
Scientists closely study our planet’s polar regions to understand the overall changes in our climate. Loss of ice sheet volume has far-reaching effects, but is also difficult to predict. A team from Tokyo’s National Institute of Polar Research has published a paper in Nature, exploring the Holocene Antarctic collapse to understand what happened in the past after rapid ice sheet thinning.
The East Antarctic Ice Sheet is the planet’s largest ice sheet. Here, the continent experienced significant ice loss and breakup after the end of the last Ice Age around 9,000 years ago. The NIPR team examined sediment cores from the seafloor, and the tiny fossils within them, to trace the breakup of the ice.
They discovered that melting ice caused a positive feedback loop. As the ice melted, the fresh surface water drove the warmer, saltier water toward Antarctica. This warmer water — called the Circumpolar Deep Water — melted the base of the ice shelves, leading to more freshwater ice melt. (snip)
This thinning peaked between nine and seven thousand years ago. Eventually, conditions changed, and the loss was reversed. But the paper’s authors believe this ancient event can improve our modern models of ice loss.
So, um, what caused this 9,000 years ago, and, why can’t that primarily be the case now?
Jesus fuckin Christ Teach
9000 years ago the North American ice sheets totally collapsed and flooded the Atlantic with freezing cold ice melt. That collapsed the Gulf Stream
That froze asses off in the UK where temps dropped 30F and gave near glacial conditions for a few hundred years. This was known as the Younger Dryas Reversal
And it IS the cause of concern now because of the rapid increase and increasing rate of temps is again causing rapid ice melt affecting ocean
currents
But the good news is that scientists foreseen this possibility to not be able to occur before 2100 when both you and I are long gone and forgotten
Did that help answer your question Teach ?
“ Eventually, conditions changed,…” Excuse me? What was it that caused this change? SUVs? Beef cattle? Backyard BBQs? Are you telling me that climate can change irrespective of human activity? Gosh, who knew?
That’s right!! What causes the Earth’s transitions from glacial to interglacial periods and back again? Bueller? Bueller?
Is that what’s happening now?
Look up Milankovitch. Drink deep.
William: From An Essay on Criticism – Alexander Pope
“A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring:
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again.”
Substituting one’s beliefs/feelings for the knowledge of experts is a dangerous thing. We understand that you believe/feel/claim that tens of thousands of experts are running a money-making scam, while actually trump/musk/vought/ellison/zuck are enriching themselves at your expense!
Tipping points are made-up arbitrary points. No real science behind them.
Interesting, because in Jan and Feb. Nature came out with 2 papers that said the opposite of what this one does. Terhaar et al, 2025 and Baker et al, 2025.
“Because the rapid increase in temps..”. Hold on, Johnny..New paper out that claims the 1899 to 1940 warming was faster than the 1983 to 2024 warming. The study looked at 60 million daily maximum minimum from 1600 to the present. Bhatta, 2025.
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5395197
Is this the Bhatta 2025 “paper”? Was it ever reviewed and published?
SSRN is not a publisher but rather a parking lot for unreviewed documents. Meaningless at this stage.
You are correct that any individual result must be corroborated. The current scientific consensus is that CO2 from the burning of fossil fuels is causing the Earth to warm.
BTW, that is Mr Bhatta’s only foray into climate science. He recently posted:
“Workforce Gender Diversity and Firm Adaptability During Covid-19 Pandemic: Cross-Country Evidence” 2023
Huh…
Iceland declared the POSSIBILITY of the collapse of the North Atlantic currents a National Security problem.
Climate change deniers think that the mere recognition of the possibility of an event occuring, such as a hurricane, should not even be acknowledged. The future IS uncertain, their premise is that since it is uncertain why acknowledge either that possibility, study it, or prepare in advance to mitigate the problem. Why wear a seat built everyday when you will probably not even need it!