Climate change: AMOCalypse Now

The Journal, Chartered Insurance Institute

January 10, 2025

The Journal link: https://thejournal.cii.co.uk/2025/01/10/climate-change-amocalypse-now

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My Op-Ed for The Journal – Chartered Insurance Institute – highlights the potential impact of an impaired Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (#AMOC). And why insurers, as well as other money pipelines must act.

The critical role of oceans in climate regulation tends to be undermined. #Anthropogenic onslaught is driving this “great global ocean conveyor belt” towards a #tipping point.

Unhindered fossil fuel burning and relentless deforestation are resulting into skyrocketing greenhouse gas emissions, as well as rapid Arctic and Greenland ice melting. That is adversely transforming ocean water chemistry and dynamics.

Climate scientists believe that a substantial weakening of AMOC might result in significant, possibly catastrophic, climate breakdown. Oceanographer and climatologist Dr. Stefan Rahmstorf has been closely following the developments and regularly shares valuable alerts.

Study by Dr. Susanne Ditlevsen and Dr. Peter Ditlevsen “confirms the huge concerns about a possible collapse of one of the major tipping points in the climate”.

That could literally leave parts of the planet frozen and much of the rest boiling.