Amuck Time

...Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) could potentially collapse within three years... 

What is the AMOC? It is a complex system of currents responsible for keeping our climate relatively stable and transporting carbon and nutrients. As warm water near the ocean surface gets pushed northwards, it warms Europe on its way to the North Pole, where it forms sea ice. The salt gets left in the ocean, and, due to its salinity, it becomes dense and then drops to the ocean floor, where it moves south before being pulled back up to the surface to warm up again. This cycle can take around 1,000 years to complete, yet research in 2021 warned that the AMOC “could be close to a critical transition to its weak circulation mode,” where it will slow even further.

Read Simon Whalley's article in Alternet.

[Don't Worry] If there's a hell below, we're all gonna go

---Curtis Mayfield

Thanks to the commenter of this article for the song quote.

When come time to do, Everybody's laying

They say don't worry

They say don't worry

They say don't worry

...[C]limate systems all around the world will be altered irreversibly. Research in Nature Climate Change found that surface cooling will begin over the North Atlantic and expand Arctic sea ice before moving into the North Pacific and spreading south toward the tropics. This would result in the Pacific Ocean entering into a permanent La Niña phase, which could cause disastrous monsoons and flooding in the South Pacific and increased drought and heat in North America.

...Europe is projected to witness more frequent winter storms and see more summer heat brought up from the south, with Southern Europe becoming even drier—meaning more wildfires and intense heat waves. As Southern Europe bakes, Northern Europe will see increased precipitation, although it has been found that much of the U.K.’s arable land will rapidly become unproductive. South Asia will experience a weakening of monsoon circulation, and rainfall in Asia and Africa will be affected. (Whalley)

And everybody saying don't worry

They say don't worry

They say don't worry

They say don't worry

This article says people power can do something by not eating meat....I don't want to be apathetic, but I just don't see how people are going to get together enough to make a dent.  I'm still weirdly hopeful or I still have hope inside me.  Maybe because I'm a parent.

Our people power is supposed to be the government, but it's so damn divided it's hard to make a move.  A consumer strike would be interesting, but I guess it's too far in the future..three years..to be proactive.  

We are a reactive species.

And damn it, I just want to think about ETs and UFOs!

Tell me what we gonna do

If everything I say is true

This ain't no way it ought to be

If only all the mass could see

But they keep talkin' 'bout don't worry