“I don’t think it is my job to talk about my feelings, but I do have two children and I am very worried about what future they will live in.
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“I don’t think it is my job to talk about my feelings, but I do have two children and I am very worried about what future they will live in. I sometimes joke that physicists don’t have feelings. But even physicists care about their kids.”
Important reminder from @rahmstorf that the #climatecrisis is a human & personal nightmare, not just remote “science”.
Part of this must-read piece about the Amoc & the catastrophe it will unleash if it collapses:
‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation
Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf explains why Amoc breakdown could be catastrophic for both humans and marine life
the Guardian (www.theguardian.com)
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Mark McCaughreanreplied to Mark McCaughrean last edited by
FWIW, I think I first heard Stefan talking about the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation tipping point more than 20 yrs ago when I was working in Potsdam.
It scared me then & the scientific evidence for it, our understanding of the dangers it poses, & the risk that it’ll happen soon have all increased since.
As he says, the main danger is that our agricultural systems, our infrastructure, & dare I say it, our politics are predicated on things staying the same.
Which they will not.
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@markmccaughrean it's hard not to spot from reading history that many civilisations succumbed to climate change in their regions from natural changes beyond their control - and now we are doing it almost deliberately on a scale that will affect the globe.
I wonder if we'll ever learn.
