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It’s Definitive – The Gulf Stream Is Weakening
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Britain and Iceland are utterly fucked.
The good news is that Iceland won't have to go around apologizing for its name anymore.
Greenland still will be inaccurate though, unless the Arctic decides to just melt.
At this point i would honestly just shrug it off, what else is new lol
Maybe the warming and freezing will cancel out and the much smaller islands that will be left after the sea levels rise will still be temperate and worth living on.
Edit: This is not an "I'm alright, Jack" comment. I'd rather this wasn't even a vague possibility and that the planet wasn't warming out of control.
Maybe, but food and water will be extremely scarce. We can't all just up and move. You and I will almost certainly die of starvation.
So's Norway - quite a few places on the west coast (the most inhabited non-Oslo part of the country) rely on the fact that the gulf stream keeps them unusually warm for their latitude
I'm already seeing things that would normally grow fine out in the garden suffer from abnormally late and early frosts and mild summers. Rip my tomatos and onions. Everyone's complaining about 20+ degree springs in the mainland while I'm screaming that it's still snowing in late May.
Oof, I'm sorry to hear about your veggies :(
I hope it doesn't collapse, it would mean a lot of displaced people and loss of life.