WhatsApp: Hi Roger, Tom from @thetimes here. I’m writing a story on #Stonehenge. Do you want to comment for the article? My reply: Last month a gathering of the world's leading scientists decided there was a 40% chance of the AMOC current collapsing in the 2030s - which will lead to a 10-30C fall in winter temperatures in the UK - i.e., the permanent inability to grow food at scale and thus mass migration and/or starvation. As any conservative social Darwinist knows - a society only survives if it can respond and adapt effectively to existential threats - i.e., focus on the message not the messenger. For further info on AMOC from expert Prof. S. Rahmstorf, Potsdam Inst. "They show how particularly northern Europe from Britain to Scandinavia would suffer devastating impacts, such as a cooling of winter temperatures by between 10 °C and 30 °C occurring within a century, leading to a completely different climate within a decade or two, in line with paleo climatic evidence about abrupt ocean circulation changes. In addition they show major shifts in tropical rainfall belts. These (and many more) impacts of an AMOC collapse have been known for a long time but thus far have not been shown in a climate model of such high quality." "Overall the new study adds significantly to the rising concern about an AMOC collapse in the not too distant future. It thus adds even more weight to recent reports sounding strong warning sirens, such as the OECD Climate Tipping Points report of December 2022 and the Global Tipping Points report published December 2023. We will continue to ignore this risk at our peril." realclimate.org/index.php/ar…