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sigh I had an idea to retire in Ireland but I guess I should pack my winter coat.
…whatever happens with the climate, you should pack your winter coat.
50 to 100 years from now? .... phew..... i can rest easy now ..... at least all I have to worry about in my lifetime is extreme heat and hurricanes .... I'll let the next generation worry about the mid Atlantic Ocean current failing
Hey it might even start a mini ice age .... which would be a good thing because of the global warming right?
This current brings warmer weather to Europe so it will get colder when it collapses. I think Europe should make collapsing this current their official climate change mitigation policy. No one else affected is really interested in doing anything to stop it anyway.
Hey it might even start a mini ice age
Circulating the hot air north into cooler climates brings rain and snow to what would otherwise be a dry North American inland. A collapse in the current wouldn't change the prevailing climate, just the distribution of heat between regions. You'd end up with these ugly Atlantic hot spots paralleled by dry tundras up north. But the planet wouldn't cool as a result. If anything, the resulting desertification would contribute to the warming cycle.
Isn't Europe specifically supposed to get really cold?
Western Europe - England, France, and Scandinavia in particular. Southern Europe is going to get much hotter.
I believe I read that it would cause rainfall in North America to increase. But decrease in India and West Africa which would be pretty catastrophic.
India is nowhere near the Atlantic, though. You might be thinking of monsoons changing due to separate effects.
Surprising but that’s what it said, unless I’m misremembering.
The climate system is interconnected and a big change like this can have geographically distant effects.
Yeah, we went from the first flight to people on the moon in only 66 years. So there's no real reason to cut into record profits now, they'll have reversing it figured out by the time the collapse happens!
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Wait until you see the price tag though. Hoo boy.
Here are my uneducated predictions. Iceland will become practically uninhabitable, more like Northern Quebec, along with Norway. UK will have weather more like Labrador. Without the current to circulate heat away from the tropics, the Caribbean area will become hotter and more prone to severe storms.