A new analysis has concluded that the Gulf Stream is definitely slowing, but whether it's due to climate change is hard to tell.

A new study has confirmed that the Gulf Stream, a crucial ocean current that helps regulate climate and sea levels, is weakening. The flow of warm water through the Florida Straits has slowed by 4% over the past four decades. This slowdown has significant implications for the world’s climate, and scientists are concerned that it may be a sign of further weakening to come.

  • agent_flounder@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    11 måneder siden

    Every time I read these articles I just keep waiting for all the other people to finally catch on to how fucked we are and a critical mass of people to actually do something meaningful. Still waiting.

    As a result I was feeling frustrated and scared. But now I have come to bitterly accept we are probably going to kill ourselves off (mostly or completely) after mass suffering. At best, I figure whoever is left goes insane because 99% of all species will have gone extinct and the earth will have become a barren, silent, cheerless wasteland.

    Hopefully we have exploited natural resources to a degree where it will be out of reach for the next sentient species. They won’t find pip or gold or other minerals just lying around so maybe they will remain primitive and low population.

    • benjithedog@lemmy.world
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      11 måneder siden

      There isn’t enough time for another sentient species to evolve after this extinction. This is it.