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I think you've misunderstood the claim - they're saying that once the currents shut down, it would take 50 years for glaciers to form. But the currents are obv
by Imnimo 5y ago
I think you've misunderstood the claim - they're saying that once the currents shut down, it would take 50 years for glaciers to form. But the currents are obviously still flowing today, and my understanding is that a collapse is projected to take many decades.
- hedora 5y agoI get the impression they don't have any way to model the rate at which the currents will shut down, but that it was apparently quickly in the past. Either way, we're talking about either abandoning most of Europe in our (or our children's) lifetimes, or just using existing technologies to avoid that, along with many other disasters.