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Niklas Boers
Professor of Earth System Modeling at the Technical University of Munich (Germany)
I do not agree with the outcome of this study. While the qualitative statement that the AMOC has been loosing stability in the course of the last century is true and supported by the data, uncertainties are too high to reliably estimate a time of tipping. In particular, the uncertainties in the heavily oversimplified model assumptions by the authors are too high. Moreover, the uncertainties in the underlying datasets are huge and would make the extrapolation carried out by the authors far too uncertain to actually report a year or even a decade for the AMOC tipping.
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