NEW STUDY: A M O C are the four most important letters in my life - in your life reading this - in everyone's living on this planet. Even if we truly understood even a little of what is at stake, we would be spending days unable to speak - traumatised by horror and terror. And then we would know what we are going to be doing for rest of our lives. Doing what it takes to stop this from happening. “There’s now five papers, basically, that suggested it could well happen in this century, or even before the middle of the century,” Rahmstorf said. “My overall assessment is now that the risk of us passing the tipping point in this century is probably even greater than 50%.” Prof S. Rahmstorf, world expert on AMOC, @PIK_Climate edition.cnn.com/2024/08/02/c… 3 August 2024 climatecodered.org/2024/05/o…… @djspratt "Consequences:  Modelling by Prof. Peter Ditlevsen of the University of Copenhagen shows that AMOC slowdown would cool London by an average of 10°C and Bergen, Norway by 15°C.  A breakdown of this system could plunge the UK and large parts of the Northern Hemisphere into a new ice age ... " Global food and water security crisis: Ditlevsen and his co-authors conclude that a collapse of the AMOC heat-transporting circulation would be a going-out-of-business scenario for European agriculture: “You cannot adapt to this”. In addition, writes Prof. Tim Lenton, the director of the Global Systems Institute at the University of Exeter, the monsoons that typically deliver rain to West Africa and South Asia would become unreliable, and huge swathes of Europe and Russia would be devastated by drought. As much as half of the world’s viable area for growing corn and wheat could dry out. He says that “in simple terms [it] would be a combined food and water security crisis on a global scale.”"