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If Europe has started experiencing over 40°C heatwaves frequently, then this planet really is fucked
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If not for the gulf stream (a constant sea water movement) Europe would be much colder and Northern America much warmer. I wonder if climate warming could potentially stop this gulf stream
The AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) is now creaking under the weight of all that Pacific heat in the ocean. If that goes - which is looking increasingly likely within the next 25-50 years - then sayonara Gulf Stream and Europe can look forward to what's likely to be extremely sub-zero winter temperatures and soaring summer temperatures.
I'm in the UK and I've bought an extra pair of mitts and a hand fan, so I'll be laughing
Just to be clear a collapsing AMOC is projected to slow the gulf stream but not stop it.
It's still very very bad though.
What are we talking about when you say extremely sub zero. As in -20c or colder?
I was flabbergasted the first time I realized just how far north Europe is, compared to North America.
Paris is at 48° 51' N, significantly further north than Toronto (43° N), Montreal (45° N). London is at 51°N 30', which is further north than Vancouver (49° N), and just slightly further north than Calgary (51°N).
Even southern European cities like Ibiza (39° N) are at comparable latitudes to northern American cities like Philadelphia (40°N) or even New York (41°N).
If Europe starts seeing climate comparable to similar latitudes in North America, that would represent a huge change from the recorded history.
Let's just put it this way. It is what was thought to have triggered previous ice ages.
Has an ice age ever started during a current ice age before?
There have been many interglacial periods.
We have the same cake day!
Very serious topic about dying earth, climate change, etc
"yo we have the same cake day!"
Idk why, but this made me laugh too much
A little whimsy to make the world more bearable. Idk where I heard the advice, but:
Exactly that, yes. We rely on the Gulf Stream for our mild climate so, if that goes, we get the extremes in both summer and winter
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-20c is nothing.
Europe won't just be colder, the weather will be more extreme in all directions. Hotter summers and colder winters, with stronger storms due to more extreme temperature variances. It will be a fun time all year round for everyone.
Time to figure out how to put the inside of a building six months away from its outside...
I'm just glad the past few winters were so mild here in romania the past few (5?) years. I dread a really cold winter.
Also crops. Nobody is talking about the crops
You're talking about the crops, silly, therefore you are wrong
The peasants here are talking about them all the fucking time.
Idk if rhetorical question but there's evidence (iirc, an atypically cold patch of water off of....Greenland?) that the gulf stream may already be breaking down.
Just move Europe to the west coast of the south pole and it will drag Italy up the scooter hole of Antarctica, and then we will have the power of Star Gate: Atlantis in our own pants
I definitely smell toast. Is somebody making toast!?
I put an hourglass stuck in my ass when the before was it that doesn't but do it he the way it go now