[roadside_picnic]

The AMOC collapsing (I have no idea why the title says 'Gulf Stream' as that is different and not mentioned in the post), has far more disastrous implications than destroying the climate of Europe.

It's the beginning of the process of ocean de-oxygenation, ultimately creating a lifeless ocean that emits hydrogen sulfide instead of oxygen. It would completely disrupt the planetary food change, make the ocean poisonous, and fundamentally alter life on this planet in unimaginable ways.

For a more detailed look at the issue I highly recommend Peter Ward's "Under a Green Sky".

[tcumulus]

Should have used AMOC indeed, in Dutch media the word "golfstroom" was used, and I translated it without putting too much thought into it.

[Insanity]

Just added it to my backlog of books. That does look like an interesting read, thank you.

[CharlesW]

Related deal alert: Is $1.99 on Kindle today.

[neffy]

Ok, but this happens pretty regularly on a planetary scale (at least every 110,000 years or so) - why hasn´t it been so disastrous before - say at the end of the last interglacial?

[hagbard_c]

There were fewer humans around last time. Also there were no 'journalists' around to proclaim it so. If a tree falls in the forest and there is nobody around to hear it, does it make a sound?

[AlecSchueler]

Are you suggesting that humans never write about great extinction events that occurred in the past?

[LargoLasskhyfv]

I'm unaware of any surviving artifacts of the chronicles of Lemuria. Non-fictional, that is.

[AlecSchueler]

I'm not sure what I'm supposed to take from this statement.