| ▲ | cgh 6 hours ago | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
It’s worth looking at this polar map to get a visual sense of the ramifications of this happening: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arctic_Circle#/media/File:Arct... Notice the red line, marking where the average temperature of the warmest month is below 10°C. Notice how low it is on the west side of the Atlantic, in Nunavut and Labrador. It’s between 50° and 60° north. Now imagine that line at those latitudes in Europe. You’d have Labrador-like conditions in the UK, a drastic situation indeed. Reykjavik would suddenly resemble Iqaluit. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ▲ | hedora 5 hours ago | parent [-] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
That’s an overly optimistic way to look at it. The geological record shows there were glaciers in parts of France and Germany the last time th current shut down. (When it shut down due to CO2 induced global warming.) Also, the temperature change was rapid: Somewhere between 50-100 years. If we’re in the same cycle, we’re more than a decade in already. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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