Professor Laurie Monville

So in particular, Western Europe would weaken.

But the thing to take into account, however, is that we know that Europe is already much warmer than it was during pre-industrial time.

So even if there is a collapse of the overturning, it will reduce this warming.

We're not going to have freezing conditions.

We're just going to have much less warmer conditions.

So we tend to think that, you know, the AMOC is really important for Europe and obviously it has a very Europe-centric view.

But the issue is the collapse of the AMOC might affect much more the southern hemisphere than it will affect Europe in a warming climate.

First, it will affect the southern hemisphere because it will lead to further warming.

So let's say we are in a two degree warming world.

We'll know that the ocean around Australia are warmer.

We know that we have more heat waves.

If the MO collapse, we'll get even warmer.

That's a good question.

And the only thing we can do is reduce our emission of carbon and as quickly as possible.

Thank you so much for inviting me today.