An abrupt AMOC collapse would cause profound and abrupt shifts in regional weather patterns and water cycles.
An AMOC collapse under warming reduces the growth suitability of three major staple crops – wheat, maize and rice, which provide over 50% of global calories.
It’s worth reading through that whole section. TL; DR: Nothing good.
Thank you. This looks pretty dire. Widespread cooling of the northern hemisphere is not altogether bad, but key regions including Europe, West Africa, and India may receive substantially less rain. This would be catastrophic for global food production, as your graph indicates.
This is from a paper another user submitted in the lemmy.ml collapse community:
It’s worth reading through that whole section. TL; DR: Nothing good.
Edited to add this horrifying graph from the paper.
It says page not found.
Yeah, I’m not sure why, but the link I posted keeps breaking. Try this:
https://read.oecd.org/10.1787/abc5a69e-en
If that doesn’t work, you can do a search on www.oecd-ilibrary.org for “climate tipping points.”
Thank you. This looks pretty dire. Widespread cooling of the northern hemisphere is not altogether bad, but key regions including Europe, West Africa, and India may receive substantially less rain. This would be catastrophic for global food production, as your graph indicates.
https://www.currentaffairs.org/2021/11/what-would-it-look-like-if-we-treated-climate-change-as-an-actual-emergency