The AMOC Catastrophism Wheel Of Rebirth Has Sped Up!

Time was when the climate alarmists would revive the catastrophic AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) shutdown scare story (aka The Day After Tomorrow) every six months or so. Northern Europe is going to freeze . . . . . because of global warming! But now it’s every couple of weeks. AMOC catastrophism is being revivified and reincarnated so frequently now, it must surely be getting dizzy on the Buddhist Wheel of Rebirth! In fact, it’s come back to life now almost as many times as I’ve said ‘I told you so’!

Just two weeks ago, AMOC catastrophism was dead.

The headline says it all. Time for persistent AMOC worriers like the BBC to pack up their coulds, mights and maybes and move on to other speculations. AMOC has many variables and alarmist guessing games are a waste of time.

But I had my doubts, and I expressed them on that thread:

But whaddya know? It wasn’t enough! Like I said. This is the BBC headline today:

Of all the possible climate futures, there's a scenario where the United Kingdom and north-west Europe buck the trend of global warming and instead face plunging temperatures and freezing winters.

It's not the most likely outcome, but a number of scientists fear that the chance of it happening is growing, and that the consequences would be so great that it deserves proper consideration.

They are concerned that the ocean currents that bring warm water from the tropics to the North Atlantic could weaken - or even collapse - in response to climate change.

A full-scale collapse, meanwhile, would be "like a war situation […] something almost unimaginable," says Prof Lenton.

While it could take a century or more for impacts to play out, temperatures in northern Europe could fall by a couple of degrees a decade.

In the UK, it could "become horribly, horribly cold … like living in northern Norway," Prof Thornalley warns.

"Our infrastructure is not set up for that."

There could be global consequences too, such as shifts to the tropical rain belts.

"That's a big story," warns Prof Lenton.

"If you lost the monsoon or seriously disrupted it, you'd have humanitarian catastrophes, in simple terms, in west Africa [and] probably in India."

OMG! Game on - again, We’re all going to die horribly! Unless we decarbonise by this time next Tuesday:

Scientists are clear that the fundamental way to reduce these risks is to cut the greenhouse gas emissions causing climate change.

"We're playing a bit of a Russian roulette game," warns Prof England.

"The more we stack up the atmosphere with greenhouse gases, the more we warm the system, the more chance we have of an Amoc slowdown and collapse.

"And so I think people need to not give up, because there's so much to be gained by reducing emissions.

"The scale of change is just so much worse if we do nothing."

At this stage, climate alarmism is just a rerun of the Covid-19 psyop. It’s so blatantly obvious now. Surely the masses can’t get fooled again?