> Iceland’s environment minister, Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson, recently said that the latest research is shocking. Without decision-makers taking rapid action to cut fossil fuel emissions in the next decades, he warned, Iceland could become “nearly uninhabitable for our children and grandchildren”.
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> Preventing such a collapse ultimately comes down to one thing: cutting CO2 emissions, scientists emphasise. Any extra warming or prolonged overshoot of 1.5°C increases the risk of triggering an AMOC tipping point.
Unfortunately, the Nordic countries and N. Europe are not all that near & dear to the folks currently responsible for the great majority of the world's CO2 emissions. Especially not when the causal connection between "I enjoy my carbon-heavy lifestyle now" and "bad things eventually happen...mostly far away" is, in many human minds, so murky.
Sad to say, but the Nordics & N. Europe should be starting preparations for worst-case changes.
Far better coverage of the broader subject: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin...
> What can be done?
> Iceland’s environment minister, Jóhann Páll Jóhannsson, recently said that the latest research is shocking. Without decision-makers taking rapid action to cut fossil fuel emissions in the next decades, he warned, Iceland could become “nearly uninhabitable for our children and grandchildren”.
> [...]
> Preventing such a collapse ultimately comes down to one thing: cutting CO2 emissions, scientists emphasise. Any extra warming or prolonged overshoot of 1.5°C increases the risk of triggering an AMOC tipping point.
Unfortunately, the Nordic countries and N. Europe are not all that near & dear to the folks currently responsible for the great majority of the world's CO2 emissions. Especially not when the causal connection between "I enjoy my carbon-heavy lifestyle now" and "bad things eventually happen...mostly far away" is, in many human minds, so murky.
Sad to say, but the Nordics & N. Europe should be starting preparations for worst-case changes.