What good is it to solve all climate issues if animals and people don’t survive the consequences? We need to be concerned, but we need to stop the insanity. Until Trump was elected, a model of global warming was used to send chills down everyone’s spine. But, lo and behold the model was way off from all the other models. Why did they stick with the bad model? Because it supported their narrative, even though it was a flawed model.
Until we talk realistically about climate issues and stop promoting the fear that the world is ending, we will make no progress. Truth matters in news and when it comes to climate change. This article is a good read, but a bit technical. All IMO.
“There are papers that push boundaries, and then there are papers that quietly step over the line into something closer to speculative engineering fiction dressed up as policy relevance. The recent preprint titled “A Constructed Closure of the Bering Strait can Prevent an AMOC Tipping” falls squarely into the latter category. Published in March, this one has been getting a lot of press lately.
Let’s be clear about what is being proposed here: the physical closure of the Bering Strait—an ~80 km-wide ocean gateway between Alaska and Russia—using a series of dams, in order to manipulate large-scale ocean circulation and “stabilize” the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).
Yes, really.”