AMOC Collapse Depends Entirely On Models…Will Occur Sometime Between Now And Infinity

From the NoTricksZone

By P Gosselin

AMOC Uncertainties

By Frank Bosse at Klimanachrichten

A “collapse” of the AMOC (Atlantic overturning circulation) cannot be “calculated” at all. We have reported on several projections of the AMOC here, most recently here and here.

There is now an interesting twist to the once very “celebrated” study (DD23 below), which predicted a collapse of the AMOC between 2025 and 2095 with 95% certainty!

It actually already existed in September 2023 when the preprint appeared, i.e. only around 3 months after the publication of DD23. Now the official publication in the journal “Science Advances” (BY24 below). The title speaks volumes:

The uncertainties are too large to determine ‘tipping point times’ of major Earth system components from historical data.”

Longer sections of the current paper are dedicated to DD23. She had drawn (far too) far-reaching conclusions from the SST (sea surface temperatures) of the “Atlantic Subpolar Gyre” with the help of variance and autocorrelation determinations, using the HadiSST1 data set alone. This was not permissible, BY24 finds, because the SSTs there are NOT simply observations when these are not available in the required spatial and temporal resolution. Something is added, in principle it is a model.

In BY 24 it is now calculated that when using different data products (e.g. also NASA’s ERSSTv5 with other “infill methods”) very different “collapse times of the AMOC” are determined: “between 2000 and infinity”!

Since the real observations are included in all SST data products, in the end it only depends on how the observations are “supplemented” using a model in order to determine a collapse time. This is obviously nonsense, the results are sensitive to the data used.

So whenever you read about any “tipping point” times: In truth, they cannot be determined at all because we do not (yet) have enough reliable information on the system.

Will this also be the case with “The last generation…before the tipping points” – as the movement is called in full? Its name is inherently unscientific. Bad news for “science followers”!

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LT3
August 11, 2024 6:02 am

The believers will be raptured before that happens.

ScienceABC123
August 11, 2024 6:16 am

Models are great for checking what we know. They answer the question of – “Is this how it works?” But that is all they’re good for, checking.

Bryan A
Reply to  ScienceABC123
August 11, 2024 9:19 am

Instead of the definitive… Is this how it works…being answered by models,
What’s really answered is one of numerous possibilities…Is this how it could work?

Red94ViperRT10
Reply to  Bryan A
August 18, 2024 9:34 am

And if you reach a conclusion based on a flawed thought process, you may well be able to force a computer to produce the same answer/response (because you have essentially programmed your thought process as valid), but you’ll still be wrong in the end once your flawed thought process is uncovered. Experiments in the real world tend to do that. I’m quoting (paraphrasing?) somebody here, but can’t remember who: All models are ultimately wrong. Some may be useful.

August 11, 2024 6:20 am

AMOC Dittos. The only reliable tipping points are associated with tipping bucket rain gauges. Beyond that, there is no proof the AMOC ever shut down — except in Hollywood movies.

Reply to  John Shewchuk
August 11, 2024 6:59 am

Yeah there is.

There was no Atlantic to MOC not so long ago. Was it even there when there was a Panama connection between Atlantic and Pacific, up until 2.8Ma BP? Probably but weaker. The solar energy has to be carried polewards from the saturated tropics so it can evaporate better to Tropopause and hence radiate away to space. It won’t stop trying. 36% of all the LWIR lost to space is transported to space this way, 32% radiated from the surface and 32% from the atmosphere, roughly, overall.

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Duane
Reply to  Brian Catt
August 11, 2024 11:28 am

Equilibrium will always be reestablished.

Reply to  Duane
August 11, 2024 12:39 pm

Equilibrium is not a feature of a chaotic dynamic system

Reply to  Leo Smith
August 11, 2024 5:02 pm

Climate states have shown to be closer to a bistable oscillator than a linear tendency toward equilibrium.

The present era of glaciation and deglaciation is a good example. The ice builds up on land until it reaches its limit of carrying and the calving of the glaciers then takes over; cooling the oceans so the snowfall drops off, sea level rises to accelerate the calving and ice shelves break free. The process continues until most of the ice in the NH has gone.

There have been a number of periods of snowball Earth due to lifeforms feeding themselves to oblivion to then slowly recover with new lifeforms adapted to the new environment.

Duane
Reply to  Leo Smith
August 12, 2024 5:42 am

Yes it is. Chaoticsm is not related to equilibrium. Chaos is simply that the performance of a system is either not yet understood well enough to predict future behavior, and/or that there is a lot of variation in performance.

All systems will always seek to establish or reestablish an equilibrium state. Temporary variations in system inputs may temporarily upset an equilibrium, after which it will go back to its equilibrium state … or alternatively longer term variations in system inputs may cause the system to reestablish equilibrium at a different baseline.

Red94ViperRT10
Reply to  John Shewchuk
August 18, 2024 9:36 am

If this Earth had ANY tipping points, it would have tipped long ago and none of us would be sitting here discussing it.

August 11, 2024 6:35 am

So whenever you read about any “tipping point” times: In truth, they cannot be determined at all because we do not (yet) have enough reliable information on the system.

Sounds like the theory of climate tipping points has tipped over and failed. 🙂

Laws of Nature
August 11, 2024 6:46 am

The finding that these doom predictions about the AMOC are uncertain and wrong is not new.
For example
“A 30-year reconstruction of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation shows no decline”
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-17-285-2021

Also, there is the argument that as long as the Earth is rotating, there will be jet streams and ocean over-turnings.

My question there is, why does politics and journalism NOT do their homework?
I yet have to see a critical interview of someone like Rahmstorf. Rahmstorf should know about the model incompleteness, so he is either competent of lying by omission (he just sticks out because he happily mixes his wrong research with politics, not that his achievements in either are particularly outstanding).

Personally, I can guess which one is the case, https://sealevel.info/rahmstorf/
and
https://rankexploits.com/musings/2009/source-of-fishy-odor-confirmed-rahmstorf-did-change-smoothing/
“The fact that the change in smoothing was inadvertently not disclosed to readers, and was also not explained in “The (Copenhagen) Synthesis Report” is unsettling.”
Rahmstorf has a proven track record of not disclosing inconvenient facts, which should disqualify him from research in any rational field!

Bryan A
Reply to  Laws of Nature
August 11, 2024 9:22 am

My question there is, why does politics and journalism NOT do their homework?

In short, because they’ve become lazy echo chambers parroting the approved political narrative to further their own idealistic liberal viewpoint… and careers.

Rich Davis
Reply to  Bryan A
August 11, 2024 2:39 pm

I disagree. Politicians and journalists (no real distinction) are pulling all-nighters generating gaslighting masterpieces. You are just laboring under the misapprehension that their job is to shed light on the truth. It is not. It is to propagandize the party line. Truth doesn’t enter into it at all.

Reply to  Rich Davis
August 11, 2024 3:31 pm

Exactly right.

Expecting the leftwing propaganda media to do the right thing is wishful thinking. Their job is not to inform, it’s just the opposite, to distort the truth when it serves their political purposes.

The Leftwing Propaganda Media is the most dangerous organization in the world when it comes to threats to our individual freedoms.

The People cannot govern themselves properly if they are fed lies all day, every day, the way it is today. Distortions of the truth cause too many people to vote for the wrong person (Democrats), thinking they are doing the right thing.

Just look at the Democrat fools the Leftwing Propaganda Media has managed to put in the White House. Four more years of these fools and we can kiss our personal freedoms goodby.

August 11, 2024 6:47 am

It’s probably only been there for 100 million years max, so why should it hang around much longer only another hundred million at the most.

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August 11, 2024 6:50 am

I’m never sure whether you deniers are really dumb or just pretending to be. In certain chaotic systems you may not be able to get timing for certain (but not necessarily all) bifurcations (“tipping points”) but that doesn’t mean these won’t come ever. Imagine a tall column, flat top, 1 m in diameter, and a basketball on top. We all know the basketball will fall off some time. It’s very hard to predict when. If there’s an unstable equilibrium, it may persist for a long time, even indefinitely, but it will collapse.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 7:20 am

You ruler monkeys need “tipping points” to keep the hype alive.

Laws of Nature
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 7:21 am

Instead of cheap insults, you should acknowledge that the alarmists have lost this particular debate and move on!

>> but that doesn’t mean these won’t come ever
is already answered in the paper, just read!
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl4841
“On the basis of the arguments brought forth, we do not see a direct constraint on the dynamics away from the tipping point.”

Reply to  Laws of Nature
August 11, 2024 8:40 am

the alarmists have lost this particular debate

Alarmists are the literal strawmen you deniers have created. Climate science has definitely not lost this debate that doesn’t even exists outside of your imagination.

is already answered in the paper, just read!

Well, no. The sentence you quoted is in reference to a very specific type of calculation. You just yanked out of context something that looked supporting to your argument.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 9:59 am

Amazing: CO2 controls ocean currents, is there anything the Magic Molecule cannot do?

Reply to  karlomonte
August 13, 2024 5:25 am

is there anything the Magic Molecule cannot do?

What a great illustration to the old adage, that science looks like magic to the untrained eye!

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 11:24 am

Deniers created alarmists? Alarmists don’t exist? So you are the strawman?

Reply to  More Soylent Green!
August 13, 2024 5:27 am

Alarmists don’t exist?

Well, if you pretend not to understand this, I can’t help you.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 1:20 pm

Wow.. you really are off your meds today.

In your own little fantasy la-la-land, cringing in fear of your own imaginings.

Reply to  bnice2000
August 11, 2024 3:37 pm

A wise man from the past, Seneca, said: “We suffer more in our imagination more often than in reality.”

I think this describes Climate Alarmists pretty good.

Laws of Nature
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 3:01 pm

The sentence I cited answers your very specific question about the “timing for certain (but not necessarily all) bifurcations (“tipping points”)”, to me it this seems relevant and on topic:

“https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adl4841
“On the basis of the arguments brought forth, we do not see a direct constraint on the dynamics away from the tipping point.””

>> supporting to your argument.
I do not make any argument here , but just point out that since this information is in the article we discussing here, this particular debate was already over, before you asked your question, as it is already answered in the article. That you do not seem to understand this does not really surprise me, but I cannot help you any more than pointing you to the statement, which is quite clear.

Reply to  Laws of Nature
August 13, 2024 9:13 am

The sentence I cited answers your very specific question

and

before you asked your question, as it is already answered in the article.

I didn’t ask anything. I just pointed out that the referenced papers didn’t say what you thought they said.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 7:27 am

Chuckle. Comparing a simple model of static equilibrium in a well-described system is hardly analogous to an imaginary scenario in a complex system that remains poorly understood. However, if no other force acts on your basketball, it should never fall and will remain at rest atop the pole.

Reply to  Mark Whitney
August 11, 2024 8:57 am

Comparing a simple model of static equilibrium

Both are unstable, that’s the similarity.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 9:19 am

No. Both may be subject to perturbation. Both are essentially stable absent such. The static system is very simple and perturbations are reasonably predictable occurrences. The dynamic system is complex and poorly understood, as are any conceivable perturbations. No one can say what will happen to either, though probabilities of the former are within the realm of expectation. There is essentially zero quantifiable expectation regarding the latter.
A lever and a Saturn V rocket are both machines, as is the climate system itself. Complexity and uncertainty make them each unsuitable examples of each other.

Reply to  Mark Whitney
August 13, 2024 5:19 am

Both may be subject to perturbation.

Yes. And the thing that characterizes unstable equilibrium is that small perturbations can push the system outside of it.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 12:21 pm

We can agree that the basketball on a pole is unstable because we have observed such circumstances and the ball falls off.

We can agree that ghosts run away from Pacman when he eats a powerpill because we have observed it happening on a computer screen, manty times.

However, the leap you have made, that therefore GHOSTS ARE REAL, is a little far for me to follow.

You see, observations of the real world, and computer simulations are not equivalent.

Reply to  MCourtney
August 13, 2024 5:23 am

However, the leap you have made, that therefore GHOSTS ARE REAL, is a little far for me to follow.

Except I haven’t made any leap like that. This is not how it works. I just illustrated what the papers said ‘cos you had obviously misunderstood them. Please react to what I say.

Reply to  nyolci
August 13, 2024 6:32 am

Yet you dismissed Mark Whitney’s point that static equilibrium can exist also. You made a different point. However, here is the crux, as old as the earth is, where have tipping points occurred? Was the earth destroyed? Note, I didn’t say no extinctions occurred, just that the earth wasn’t destroyed.

The earth has alternated between ice ages and no ice at the poles. Those are the extremes. Can humans adapt to each? Let’s hope so, but in the end, the earth will survive. Consequently, your tipping point example is meaningless anyway.

Reply to  Jim Gorman
August 13, 2024 9:39 am

Yet you dismissed Mark Whitney’s point that static equilibrium can exist also

“Static” is irrelevant to the “Stable-unstable” spectrum. Equilibrium may be unstable and static, the basketball on a column is an example to that. Mark evidently confuses these.

Was the earth destroyed?

In case of an AMOC collapse Europe around the North Sea would suffer an almost immediate drop of 10C in temperature (paradoxical but true) for years. In a sense those areas will become uninhabitable.

Reply to  nyolci
August 13, 2024 11:00 am

I did react to what you said. I reacted to what the papers said.

They found AMOC collapse in computer models. Pacman found ghosts in computer models.
They did not find AMOC collapse in real world observations. Pacman does not find ghosts outside of the computer.

You, however, read those papers, found AMOC collapse in computer models and concluded they were real.
That is just the same as thinking Pacman and his Ghosts are real.

This is not why you are wrong. It is possible that AMOC collapse and Ghosts are real, outside of computers.
This is why you are ridiculous.

Reply to  MCourtney
August 13, 2024 1:05 pm

found AMOC collapse in computer models and concluded they were real.

I can feel how you struggle here with the thing otherwise known as science. FYI models are just complex calculations, so they actually predicted AMOC collapse. You know s=v*t is an (extremely simple) model, and if v=10 km/h, I can predict that the moving vehicle that is currently at my location will be 20 km away from me after two hours. I can’t see this (quoting your words) “in real world observations” now, it’s a prediction.
If you can’t grasp the above then you’re terminally lost in the sauce in debates about any science, and this is not just a prediction from me but a “real world observation” as well, if you know what I mean.

Reply to  nyolci
August 13, 2024 1:47 pm

We clearly have a different view of what science is.

Let me explain my position: Science is a process of explaining the world that allows any explanation except:
A) Explanations contradicted by logic.
And B) Explanations contradicted by observation.
Nothing is definitively proven to be true but explanations that pass both A and B repeatedly can respectably be treated as true. Like gravity.

You have clearly described a version of science that only rules out Test A – Explanations contradicted by logic.
This means that you are seeing no value in Test B – Observations.

That leaves you supporting something that looks like science, and does include science, but also includes a lot else.
There are logical theories behind Ghosts, UFOs, Telekenesis and the rest of parapsychology. But no-one can find any reliable empirical evidence for that sort of thing. That is why Ghosts are classified as Pseudoscience.

AMOC collapse passes Test A but has no evidence relating to Test B.
It is pseudoscience.

This is why you are ridiculous. You are referencing papers that could be in the Fortean Times. And you don’t even know why that is a problem.

Reply to  MCourtney
August 14, 2024 4:31 am

This means that you are seeing no value in Test B – Observations.

Oh, now I understand what your misconception is. No, of course what you say is wrong, and this is crucial to you to understand.

Science is a process

It’s ironic how quickly we get to the fundamentals 🙂 Deniers usually come up with some contrived definition, just like you, in order to be able to use that to arbitrarily dismiss what scientists say. But your thing is kinda salvageable.
Science is observations and a so called formal, consistent mathematical theory that fits those observations. “Fits” means predictions (calculations) are matching observations to a certain error. The theory is usually called a “model” and I know this word scares you deniers. But here it has a different meaning so you don’t have to worry. Natural sciences basically have two different models, Quantum Mechanics and Relativity. In practice we use a third one, the Newtonian (that has already been falsified, how ironic) because it’s still extremely precise for our needs.
Now modelling (as in climate modelling) is just predictions (calculations) in these models. This is it. It’s no arbitrarily made up things that you (wrongly) believe. Modelling is essentially an approximate, stepwise solution to a (usually extremely) complicated system of differential equations that describe the current problem. You deniers are usually ignorant of how widely it’s used. For example for orbital mechanics. I can’t see the rage about that… For climate, you can’t reliably follow trajectories in the state space (ie. you can’t predict weather) but what they do is just mapping the state space ‘cos that’s climate, and we are interested exactly in that.
Hope I could help you to get a better understanding of science.

Rich Davis
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 2:00 pm

The climate system is more like a marble and two bowls side by side. Most of the time perturbations are resisted and the system reverts to typical conditions. At some point though the marble will jump out of bowl 1 and into bowl 2… then after a long time, back to bowl 1. We’re in bowl 2 (Holocene) and bowl 1 is the next glaciation.

Temperatures and CO2 levels have both been much higher without tipping over to a hot regime in an imaginary third bowl. The risk to fear is the coming tipping point into glaciation.

Reply to  Rich Davis
August 13, 2024 5:23 am

Temperatures and CO2 levels have both been much higher without tipping over to a hot regime in an imaginary third bowl.

How do you know that?

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 2:58 pm

The column analogy is from the mind of a zero-science idiot.

Bares no resemblance to the topic whatsoever.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  nyolci
August 12, 2024 11:40 am

Chaotic is not unstable.

Static equilibrium is always stable.

Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
August 13, 2024 5:17 am

Chaotic is not unstable.

How did you get the impression that someone had claimed that?

Static equilibrium is always stable.

There’s a thing called “unstable equilibrium”. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_theory#Stability_of_fixed_points

Reply to  Mark Whitney
August 11, 2024 3:47 pm

A better analogy would be a wonky ball in a wide shallow bowl.

Chaotic, yet inherently stable…

…. unless someone kicks the ball.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 7:53 am

Please list the evidence that your condescending example is anywhere close to describing how the AMOC works and is an accurate model of its current state.

You do have evidence, don’t you?

Reply to  More Soylent Green!
August 11, 2024 8:41 am

Please list the evidence that your condescending example

The two papers referenced in the article.

You do have evidence, don’t you?

Yes, of course, see above.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 1:28 pm

No “scientific” evidence in either of them…

FAIL..

bobpjones
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 8:01 am

even indefinitely, but it will collapse”

Now that really is dumb

Reply to  bobpjones
August 11, 2024 8:55 am

Now that really is dumb

Okay, I see you cannot get it, I elaborate on that. So it can happen soon, but it may take a long time. If conditions don’t change. FYI conditions are going in the wrong direction.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 12:36 pm

It is dumb because AMOC has been around for a few million years now, that is STABILITY you can’t deny.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 1:30 pm

Yawn.. a fake and totally meaningless prophecy.

Compounding on your idiocy as all the BS keeps falling back in on you, as you dig deeper and deeper.

Reply to  bobpjones
August 11, 2024 3:49 pm

And based on a totally irrelevant child-minded analogy.

Bruce Cobb
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 8:20 am

So, you’re saying there’s a chance.

Reply to  Bruce Cobb
August 11, 2024 8:43 am

So, you’re saying there’s a chance.

No. I’m just pointing out that the papers referenced in the article above never say there’s no chance. They only claim we can’t time it.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 9:21 am

Or actually expect it at all. There is not “no chance” Klingons will attack Earth, either.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 1:32 pm

It must be such a pathetic existence..

…. living in a tiny mind built only from its own imaginary fears.

strativarius
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 8:27 am

I’m never sure whether you deniers are really dumb…

And your charm school was?

Reply to  strativarius
August 11, 2024 8:47 am

And your charm school was?

Technical University of Budapest. They taught me not to show mercy to idiots.

strativarius
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 9:10 am

Did they?

And now you’re hopelessly woke. Good job

Reply to  strativarius
August 13, 2024 4:52 am

woke

For actually understanding a scientific article?

Curious George
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 9:58 am

I love your equations.

Reply to  Curious George
August 13, 2024 5:15 am

I love your equations.

If so you’ll surely love climate scientists’ equations. Go read them at last.

Randle Dewees
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 11:22 am

I think you might have missed the lesson about stopping digging when you are in a hole.

Mr.
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 12:22 pm

They taught me not to show mercy to idiots.

So you offed all your teachers?

Reply to  Mr.
August 11, 2024 12:37 pm

HAW HAW HAW HAW HAW……

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 12:37 pm

Oh, the University of Budapoop., that is MY charm present for you.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 1:32 pm

They taught me not to show mercy to idiots.”

Which explains why you keep belting your head against that brick wall.

Self flagellation is such a funny thing to watch.

rbabcock
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 2:40 pm

So Griff went off to Budapest to get an “education”. I’m impressed.

Reply to  rbabcock
August 11, 2024 2:55 pm

No, it attended… but obviously did not get any education.

A “Participation” or “Was-here-sometimes”, certificate, at best.

Reply to  rbabcock
August 13, 2024 4:54 am

Griff

I’m not Griff.

to get an “education”

In my time it was world class. Now I’m not sure.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 8:37 am

1) If something remains in an unstable equilibrium indefinitely, then it won’t collapse by definition, and sounds pretty stable. that sounds really dumb.

2) if you predict something is going to happen but you can’t predict when, then is it really a prediction? It’s more of an unfounded assertion. That sounds really dumb.

Reply to  Phil R
August 11, 2024 8:58 am

then it won’t collapse by definition

Bad wording, sorry. It can take time you can’t calculate.

then is it really a prediction?

Yes.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 9:48 am

Ok, I was being a little snarky but you took time to respond, so thanks. Let me follow up. I’ll accept your answer that prediction without a timeframe is still a prediction. One prediction that is generally accepted is that the sun will go nova sometime in the next few billion years. ok, bad for earth and any life that may be in existence at that time, but so what?

Same for a prediction of the climate change apocalypse. if one can’t predict whether it will be in the next 10, 100, or 1,000 years then so what? An apocalyptic prediction with no timeframe is nothing more than fearmongering and propaganda.

Rich Davis
Reply to  Phil R
August 11, 2024 2:24 pm

Red giant but probably not nova. A distinction without a difference to be sure vis à vis life on earth.

Reply to  Phil R
August 13, 2024 4:59 am

Same for a prediction of the climate change apocalypse. if one can’t predict whether it will be in the next 10, 100, or 1,000 years then so what?

I think the time frame here is in the 100 year range, if conditions stay the same. At the moment they are deteriorating. Furthermore, if it is really a tipping point, crossing it means a sudden and dramatic change. Remember, timing is the problematic part, they never say crossing is impossible.

Reply to  nyolci
August 13, 2024 6:38 am

I think the time frame here is in the 100 year range

Which means you have no science to enable you to calculate when. That’s like saying the earth will encounter an extinction event from an asteroid in the next 100 years. Prove me wrong!

Reply to  Jim Gorman
August 13, 2024 9:48 am

Which means you have no science to enable you to calculate when

I didn’t calculate anything. I read those papers the article above references.

Prove me wrong!

You don’t need me for that 😉 remember your track record

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 1:33 pm

I’m a septuagenarian. I no longer buy extended warrantees because they are useless to me.

Your predictions fit the same pattern.

Rich Davis
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 2:20 pm

Exactly the same as the Parousia. You have faith in your tipping point and Christians have faith in the second coming.

Nobody knows the day or the hour. But we know it must come!

The problem is, your pseudo-religion of Climastrology is false.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 5:01 pm

Bad wording,”

And totally gormless rationale. !

dh-mtl
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 10:31 am

‘In certain chaotic systems’

I’m glad to see that you admit that the earth’s climate system is a chaotic system. In fact it is a ‘meta-stable’ system, i.e. a chaotic system in constrained equilibrium, and it has been for hundreds of millions of years.

What is important in a system of constrained equilibrium are the constraints, not the drivers. And the constraints for the climate system of our water planet are the properties of water. In particular is the extreme sensitivity of evaporative cooling to water temperature, which is nicely pictured in Figure 5 or Willis Eschenbach’s article ‘Rainergy’ (WUWT, May 21, 2924). Essentially, limited evaporative cooling at water temperatures of less than 25C provides a downside constraint to tropical ocean temperatures, while excessive evaporative cooling constrains to tropical ocean temperatures to less than 30C. This constrained temperature band of tropical ocean temperatures provides stability to the entire climate system.

There are many climate system drivers, including solar activity, the relative movement of the earth with respect to the sun, meteorites, etc., that are much more important than anthropological drivers, yet none of these have managed to overwhelm the system constraints in hundreds of millions of years. So I seriously doubt that any of your ‘tipping points’ driven by human activity are about to overwhelm the extremely robust constraints of our meta-stable climate system.

Reply to  dh-mtl
August 13, 2024 5:01 am

I’m glad to see that you admit that the earth’s climate system is a chaotic system.

I can’t understand how you get the impression that scientists deny this… Perhaps you should familiarize yourself with science first.

Gregory Woods
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 10:35 am

Not if you hold onto your balls.

Duane
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 11:43 am

Your silly pejorative namecalling notwithstanding, your example as cited is ridiculously irrelevant.

A basketball sitting on top of a column is obviously an unstable system, the opposite of equilibrium. As even you know, even the slightest perturbation sends it over the edge.

AMOC is a stable system entirely at equilibrium, driven by solar inputs, and the ocean as a stabilizing heat sink that sends excess equatorial heat energy northwards toward the polar region to satisfy thermal equilibrium. As further affected by oceanic and terrestrial topography, and the Coriolis effect and prevailing westerly wind patterns in the northern hemisphere. None of those stabilizing effects will be upset by a minor temporary flush of freshwater to the north Atlantic by a Greenland ice sheet that inexplicably instantly melts (???).

If the AMOC is to be affected at all, it will be temporary and most likely will not terminate the current but simply move it slightly to the east. The AMOC will predominate until plate tectonics inevitably rearranges the continents tens or hundred of millions of years from now.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Duane
August 12, 2024 10:31 am

I believe the term is critically stable. A critically stable system goes unstable at the slightest perturbation.

Reply to  Duane
August 13, 2024 5:06 am

an unstable system, the opposite of equilibrium

Yes, there’s unstable equilibrium whether you like it or not. I don’t like wikipedia but for these simple things here a link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_theory#Stability_of_fixed_points they specifically use a very similar example (ball on a hill).

AMOC is a stable system entirely at equilibrium

As far as I can understand relevant science (and I’m not a climate scientist) above a certain warming it becomes unstable. This is a scientific thing, please go read the relevant papers.

If the AMOC is to be affected at all, it will be temporary and most likely will not terminate the current but simply move it slightly to the east.

Well, I’m pretty sure you can share your insights in some scientific journals in the form of papers.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 11:47 am

Since your basketball stubbornly refuses to fall and for 500 million years has somehow returned to the top of the column each time it is knocked off by an extinction event I am convinced your worrying about “tipping points” is foolish.

Reply to  Thomas Finegan
August 13, 2024 5:07 am

refuses to fall and for 500 million years

How do you know that?

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 12:31 pm

Bla bla bla bla bla, apparently you are dumb enough to fail posting an actual counterpoint instead of this cheap drivel you bought at a third hand store.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 12:36 pm

Re the basketball on the tower, how do you “know” it will fall, what evidence do you have, what facts support your hypothesis. You know nothing about the future prospects of that ball except in the construct you have just imagined.

Reply to  Nansar07
August 13, 2024 5:09 am

Re the basketball on the tower, how do you “know” it will fall, what evidence do you have, what facts support your hypothesis

I don’t think I have to explain this. You know very well. Anyway, wikipedia has almost the same example, incidentally. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stability_theory#Stability_of_fixed_points

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 1:18 pm

What a load of mindless gibberish.

Invests a stupid irrelevant analogy in a petty and juvenile attempt to push a fantasy.

We know you are not pretending to be DUMB… It is your actual permanent state.

Writing Observer
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 1:24 pm

This doesn’t deny that an AMOC “tipping point” will happen. It does say that there is no way to determine WHEN with the current state of science, and that there is zero indication that it is even beginning to weaken.

By the way, in the described experiment, there is no disturbing force. That basketball WILL stay up there forever.

Reply to  Writing Observer
August 13, 2024 5:11 am

This doesn’t deny that an AMOC “tipping point” will happen. It does say that there is no way to determine WHEN with the current state of science,

Exactly.

described experiment, there is no disturbing force

Yes, there is 😉

Reply to  nyolci
August 13, 2024 6:44 am

Only in your mind. In my mind there is a constraint of a raised edge at the top of the column that keeps the basketball on the top. Prove me wrong!

Reply to  Jim Gorman
August 13, 2024 9:44 am

In my mind there is a constraint of a raised edge

Moving the goalposts, as always, right?

real bob boder
Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 2:30 pm

So there is a clear tipping point in your argument, the edge. There is no such clear tipping point in the climate system. This is the point there is no way to prove there is a tipping point, in fact there is zero evidence there is one.

Reply to  nyolci
August 11, 2024 2:56 pm

Oh look…. A moronic little analogy that bares zero resemblance to anything to do with climate.

Just DUMB. !

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  nyolci
August 12, 2024 11:39 am

I may not agree with what he says, but I will defend to the death his right to say it.

I only request the debate be adult.

It is not an unstable equilibrium. That is an oxymoron.

It is critically stable. A small perturbation always upsets a critically stable situation.

Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
August 13, 2024 5:14 am

I will defend to the death his right to say it.

We are not the same. I think science denial is dangerous and should be suppressed. But at least it should be treated with maximum contempt.

It is not an unstable equilibrium. That is an oxymoron.

It’s literally called “unstable equilibrium” you moron.

August 11, 2024 7:00 am

Despite continental drift, mass volcanic eruptions and asteroid impacts
the Earth’s history of recovering from extinction events and returning to
a stable life supporting ecosystem is proof of its extreme stability
and resistance to “tipping points”. Humanity’s effect on the planet is
nothing more than a mild rash on its surface, some day it may just scratch
us off and continue on as if nothing at all had happened.

real bob boder
Reply to  Thomas Finegan
August 11, 2024 2:46 pm

Or as RGB used to say, if it hasn’t already happened in the past what makes you think it’s going to happen in the future.

strativarius
August 11, 2024 7:05 am

Upfront warning, it’s 28C – the end is nigh.

“”The uncertainties are too large to determine…””

Sounds very much like “We haven’t the faintest idea”. Which seems awfully off-narrative…

Media are crucial in all of this because the science is settled … We know what the issues are and we know what needs to be done in response and we know the timeframe,”

And that includes science journals.

Bryan A
Reply to  strativarius
August 11, 2024 9:33 am

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Randle Dewees
Reply to  Bryan A
August 11, 2024 2:56 pm

Limit – one per customer!

August 11, 2024 7:09 am

The headline could have been:

“Atlantic overturning circulation unlikely to run AMOC”

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Redge
August 12, 2024 11:43 am

I see what you did there, but isn’t the “M” word missing?

Reply to  Sparta Nova 4
August 12, 2024 11:56 am

Damn! Lol

bobpjones
August 11, 2024 7:50 am

Does anybody else, recall reading an article on this very subject, about 50 years ago in Scientific American?

Bryan A
Reply to  bobpjones
August 11, 2024 9:30 am

That would have been back in the Global Cooling (Ice Age Commeth) period

Reply to  bobpjones
August 11, 2024 3:59 pm

This particular climate change scare story seems to turn up periodically. I don’t exactly remember when it first started.

Bruce Cobb
August 11, 2024 7:57 am

Maybe even beyond infinity.

Bryan A
Reply to  Bruce Cobb
August 11, 2024 9:25 am

Lightyear is abuzz about your comment

strativarius
August 11, 2024 9:08 am

Story tip

London’s low emission zone improved children’s exam scores, study claims

Effect on the key stage 2 test results of Greater London students was ‘comparable to reducing class size by 10 or giving teachers a bonus’
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/08/10/london-lez-improves-children-exam-scores-lse-claims/

Well, it made me laugh.

Reply to  strativarius
August 11, 2024 10:02 am

Ergo: less CO2, higher test scores.

Oh yeah.

Reply to  karlomonte
August 11, 2024 12:26 pm

Ergo: less street noise, higher test scores.

Sounds reasonable.

Reply to  MCourtney
August 11, 2024 1:15 pm

Or they used the tried-and-true Fake Data.

UK-Weather Lass
August 11, 2024 10:31 am

Computer models are based upon logic and logic means certainty of choice as in either/or, yes/no,on/off, etc., no matter how many levels of choice may be involved in one decision path (e.g. a one to many list of choices). That means choices are restricted and do not allow for any uncertainty no matter how you try to program it to do so.

Uncertainty simply identifies as uncertainty in logic whether great or small and a good programmer will capture this risk rather than have a program that never produces any output at all.

Reply to  UK-Weather Lass
August 11, 2024 12:34 pm

Um, I might be misunderstanding what you’re trying to say here, but no, you can absolutely have uncertainty. Take a look at Conway’s Game of Life for an example, as explained here by Veritasium – https://youtu.be/HeQX2HjkcNo?feature=shared

Duane
August 11, 2024 11:26 am

Even if we grant the warmunists prediction of an overturned AMOC due to a completely implausible if not impossibe mass flush of freshwater into smack dab in the middle of the AMOC, so what?

The flow may be interrupted but it won’t come to a screeching halt. The natural tendency to seek a new equilibrium that moves equatorial oceanic heat toward the north polar region could simply relocate itself easily to the east. After all it’s a pretty big ocean. And even if the AMOC did not shift itself eastward, any freshwater flushes by definition are temporary, if not cyclic, because the Greenland ice cap can melt only until there is no more ice to melt.

The worst case is the east coast of North America MAYBE gets slightly colder (not by much, however since prevailing winds are from the west, so are already relatively cold and dry, not from the east) along with northwestern Europe – isn’t that supposed to be a good thing if you’re a warmunist? The world does not end.

The Cassandra theme of warmunists is simply both implausible AND is a yawner.

August 11, 2024 12:10 pm

Actual data showed nothing so the authors had to supplement them with data generated by models based on the sought conclusions … and strangely enough, they succeed.

“With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk.”
Von Neumann

August 11, 2024 12:38 pm

So whenever you read about any “tipping point” times: In truth, they cannot be determined at all because we do not (yet) have enough reliable information on the system.

…And even if we did, the chaotic nature of the climate system would still prevent any reliable predictions being made.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  Leo Smith
August 12, 2024 11:45 am

Nature will make us all idiots if we allow her by cooperating.

August 11, 2024 1:01 pm

Unless I am mistaken, there have been a number of periods where the AMOC HAS collapsed.

They are called Heinrich and Dansgaard-Oeschger Events. Six events have been recorded in the North Atlantic marine sediments, where there are streams of coarse-grained sediments derived from land, carried there by melt water and melting icebergs.

“These freshwater dumps reduced ocean salinity enough to slow deep-water formation and the thermohaline circulation…..and cause the North Atlantic to cool”

Source: National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Bob
August 11, 2024 1:38 pm

Very nice.

kwinterkorn
August 12, 2024 7:58 am

A model is just a quantification of a theory or hypothesis. A model run through a computer does not produces facts or data, just predictions that can range in usefulness from “the sun will rise tomorrow” (useful) to the “Hale Bopp Comet means the end is nigh” (silly).

The climate alarmist crowd already “knows” that CO2 will destroy the planet. It is not surprising all of their models made in service to their belief predict this outcome.

inconvenient for them that as each of their predictions reaches its time, the Climate does not cooperate—-Just as the Hale Bopp Comet came and went without ill effect.

The smart Climate Alarmists keep their predictions far enough into the future to avoid such embarrassments.

Sparta Nova 4
Reply to  kwinterkorn
August 12, 2024 11:57 am

Since real data is not used in the inputs, only test cases, the output is projections, not predictions.

And yes, the Climate Syndicate has 50 years of failed predictions and no signs they will improve on that record.

Rational Keith
August 15, 2024 6:19 pm

I like that timeline – infinity.

Much could happen by then. 😉