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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wkat4242 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

That was during an ice age, the global temperature was way lower in general. It wasn't caused by just the absence of the gulf stream

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dev1ycan 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Why do people like you type without a single shred of understanding of the problem like you know it all?

This whole article is talking about the AMOC, not the Gulf stream, two different things.

	▲	tokai an hour ago \| parent [-]
		One is a part of the other. What an unsympathetic comment. While its imprecise, AMOC and Gulf stream has been mixed up for decades in colloquial discussion about this issue. You're not adding anything here.

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dmurray 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This isn't saying much. There are glaciers in parts of France and Germany now.

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Swizec 5 hours ago | parent [-]

There are glaciers as far south as Slovenia. Spitting distance to the mediterranean.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skuta_Glacier

Granted it’s not a very big glacier, but it’s there :D

	▲	tonfa 5 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		Though not for long https://slovenia.si/this-is-slovenia/remnants-of-slovenias-g... :( (the other Slovenian glacier is almost gone as well)
	▲	BerislavLopac 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		> Spitting distance to the mediterranean. People tend to underestimate how cold it gets in the interior of countries generally seen as the "sunny Mediterranean" - from Croatia, Montenegro, Albania and even Greece.
	▲	kakacik 3 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		There are glaciers on Kilimanjaro or South American mountains ie in Ecuador which are very close to equator, its just a question of altitude and given microclimate.

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throw74849458 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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