[j_french]

Shout out to the gulf stream for keeping Ireland's climate significantly more temperate than our Canadian latitude neighbours. As kids when we looked out to sea on the west coast we thought next stop was New York, but it's more like Newfoundland. If (when?) the gulf stream gets significantly disrupted it's gonna be a major shock

[Supernaut]

> Shout out to the gulf stream for keeping Ireland's climate significantly more temperate than our Canadian latitude neighbours.

Here is research that argues to the contrary: https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-euro...

[graemep]

Interesting. Is there other research on this? How well tested is the mode?

It is something i have wondered about because proximity to the heat in the sea is clearly an important factor too, so i am interested. Surely the Gulf Stream must have some impact?

[CalRobert]

Fortunately, Ireland’s woefully inadequate climate policies may help give us a chance to study the phenomenon of AMOC collapse within our lifetimes!

[Supernaut]

Ireland's climate policies, whether adequate or inadequate, can have very little affect on the evolution of the AMOC, or any other large-scale climactic phenomenon. There are vastly more influential factors at play all around the world.

[mikhailfranco]

For peat's sake!

[fulafel]

It's not indeed more at risk than previously thought - https://www.politico.eu/article/gulf-stream-could-collapse-l...

[fransje26]

TL;DR:

    "As far as current models suggest, we conclude that the risk of a northern AMOC shutdown is greater than previously thought,” Drijfhout and his colleagues wrote.