“Be very worried: Gulf Stream collapse could spark global chaos by 2025” announced the New York Post. This latest alarmist rhetoric provides a textbook example of how not to communicate climate science. These headlines do nothing to raise public awareness, let alone influence public policy to support climate solutions. Explained | Global warming will likely soon cross 1.5º C. What will it mean for India? The latest series of alarmist headlines may not have fixated on an impending ice age, but they still suggest the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation could collapse by 2025.

Source: The Hindu August 05, 2023 15:53 UTC