Rise for climate belgium

Dans cet épisode fascinant, Julie Deshayes démonte les fantasmes autour de l’arrêt du Gulf Stream. Elle explique ce qu’est vraiment l’AMOC, ce courant océanique profond qui régule le climat de l’Atlantique nord, pourquoi il est difficile à mesurer, et pourquoi les annonces d’effondrement imminent sont souvent des raccourcis dangereux. Elle alerte aussi sur la récupération de certaines études par des climato-dénialistes qui s’en servent pour minimiser l’urgence climatique. Une plongée captivante dans l’océan des incertitudes… où la science reste notre seule boussole.

Le discours européen sur la sécurité trahit le fait que nos dirigeants politiques ne prennent pas la menace existentielle du dérèglement climatique au sérieux. Les préoccupations liées à la guerre dominent, tandis que l'action climatique est sapée.

L’effondrement de ce qu’on appelle communément le Gulf Stream – le vaste courant océanique atlantique connu des scientifiques sous le nom de circulation méridionale de retournement atlantique (AMOC) – porterait un coup fatal à la civilisation telle que nous la connaissons. Parfois surnommée « le chauffage central de l’Europe », l’AMOC explique pourquoi la Grande-Bretagne, la France, les Pays-Bas et leurs voisins du nord bénéficient d’hivers relativement doux, malgré leur latitude élevée.

Le climat européen pourrait basculer bien plus vite qu’annoncé. Selon une étude récente, la circulation océanique de l’Atlantique, ce gigantesque tapis roulant qui adoucit nos hivers et régule le climat mondial, menace de s’effondrer dans les prochaines décennies, et non dans quelques siècles. Une rupture qui bouleverserait nos saisons, l’agriculture mondiale et le niveau des mers.

Affaibli par le dérèglement climatique, l’AMOC aurait bien plus de chances de s’arrêter que prévu, avertit une nouvelle étude. Un événement littéralement glaçant puisqu’il ferait chuter les températures en Europe jusqu’à –30 °C.

Les experts alertent sur un effondrement possible du principal courant océanique qui régule le climat européen.

Scientists say ‘shocking’ discovery shows rapid cuts in carbon emissions are needed to avoid catastrophic fallout

The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is the world's strongest ocean current and plays a disproportionate role in the climate system due to its role as a conduit for major ocean basins. This current system is linked to the ocean's vertical overturning circulation, and is thus pivotal to the uptake of heat and CO2 in the ocean. The strength of the ACC has varied substantially across warm and cold climates in Earth's past, but the exact dynamical drivers of this change remain elusive. This is in part because ocean models have historically been unable to adequately resolve the small-scale processes that control current strength. Here, we assess a global ocean model simulation which resolves such processes to diagnose the impact of changing thermal, haline and wind conditions on the strength of the ACC. Our results show that, by 2050, the strength of the ACC declines by ∼20% for a high-emissions scenario. This decline is driven by meltwater from ice shelves around Antarctica, which is exported to lower latit

Selon une nouvelle étude américano-suisse, le "courant méridienne de retournement atlantique" — ou AMOC — n'a montré aucun signe de déclin au cours des 60 dernières années. Ce courant océanique est essentiel au climat doux qui règne en Europe de l'Ouest et du Nord. Mais sa stabilité ne signifie pas que les craintes de son effondrement soient infondées.

Several high-profile research papers have brought renewed attention to the potential collapse of a crucial system of ocean currents known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, as we discussed in part one of this two-part post. Huge uncertainties in both the timing and details of potential impacts of such a collapse remain.

Les courants marins de l’océan Atlantique, qui façonnent une grande partie du climat mondial, changent de manière préoccupante. L’un des phénomènes les plus inquiétants est l’affaiblissement de la circulation méridionale de retournement de l’Atlantique (AMOC), un système de courants vitaux pour l’équilibre climatique de la Terre. En effet, ce processus, connu sous le nom de « grand convoyeur océanique », joue un rôle clé dans la régulation des températures et des conditions météorologiques à travers le monde. Selon des chercheurs, l’effondrement des courants de l’océan Atlantique pourrait être imminent, avec des conséquences catastrophiques au niveau mondial.

L'affaiblissement des courants dans l'Atlantique aura des effets « dévastateurs et irréversibles » sur de nombreux pays. La fonte rapide des glaciers arctiques pourrait précipiter leur effondrement.

The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation is the main driver of northward heat transport in the Atlantic Ocean today, setting global climate patterns. Whether global warming has affected the strength of this overturning circulation over the past century is still debated: observational studies suggest that there has been persistent weakening since the mid-twentieth century, whereas climate models systematically simulate a stable circulation. Here, using Earth system and eddy-permitting coupled ocean–sea-ice models, we show that a freshening of the subarctic Atlantic Ocean and weakening of the overturning circulation increase the temperature and salinity of the South Atlantic on a decadal timescale through the propagation of Kelvin and Rossby waves. We also show that accounting for upper-end meltwater input in historical simulations significantly improves the data–model agreement on past changes in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, yielding a slowdown of 0.46 sverdrups per decade since 1950

The idea that the AMOC is headed to collapse is very controversial, but it is clearly weakening. If the circulation did collapse, the consequences on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean would be immense—including large changes in temperature and a spike in weather-related disasters.

The Atlantic Ocean's most vital ocean current is showing troubling signs of reaching a disastrous tipping point. Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf tells Live Science what the impacts could be.

The network of Atlantic ocean currents keeping the Earth's climate stable are far closer to collapse than first estimated, scientists warn.

AMOC collapse would bring severe global climate repercussions, with Europe bearing the brunt of the consequences.

We, the undersigned, are scientists working in the field of climate research and feel it is urgent to draw the attention of the Nordic Council of Ministers to the serious risk of a major ocean circulation change in the Atlantic. A string of scientific studies in the past few years suggests that this risk has so far been greatly underestimated. Such an ocean circulation change would have devastating and irreversible impacts especially for Nordic countries, but also for other parts of the world.

Several studies in recent years have suggested the crucial system — the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC — could be on course for collapse, weakened by warmer ocean temperatures and disrupted saltiness caused by human-induced climate change. But the new research, which is being peer-reviewed and hasn’t yet been published in a journal, uses a state-of-the-art model to estimate when it could collapse, suggesting a shutdown could happen between 2037 and 2064.

There is increasing concern that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) may collapse this century with a disrupting societal impact on large parts of the world. Preliminary estimates of the probability of such an AMOC collapse have so far been based on conceptual models and statistical analyses of proxy data. Here, we provide observationally based estimates of such probabilities from reanalysis data. We first identify optimal observation regions of an AMOC collapse from a recent global climate model simulation. Salinity data near the southern boundary of the Atlantic turn out to be optimal to provide estimates of the time of the AMOC collapse in this model. Based on the reanalysis products, we next determine probability density functions of the AMOC collapse time. The collapse time is estimated between 2037-2064 (10-90% CI) with a mean of 2050 and the probability of an AMOC collapse before the year 2050 is estimated to be 59±17%.