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Let's hope the gulf stream stays stable or northern Europe will become very unpleasant.
by adrianN 4y ago
Let's hope the gulf stream stays stable or northern Europe will become very unpleasant.
- rongopo 4y agoUnpleasant by heat or cold? An unstable/weak gulf stream would make N Europe colder!
- frereubu 4y agoI think that's what they mean. AFAIK the entire UK is north of the Canadian border. The people, economy, infrastructure and natural environment are nowhere near ready to deal with a Canadian-style winter.
- onlyrealcuzzo 4y agoMost of Canada - where it's REALLY cold - is mainly cold because it's so far away from water. Nova Scotia is much colder than the UK - but it's not like it's Siberia. I imagine the UK is highly unlikely to get colder than Nova Scotia.
- osigurdson 4y agoNova Scotia winter weather would be quite a shock for the UK. I don't think it would be catastrophic but very unpleasant for sure.
- thrown_22 4y agoYou can look at a map. Scotland is at the same latitude as Hudson Bay. The Belcher Islands are not known for mild winters despite being in the middle of that bay: https://www.worldweatheronline.com/belcher-islands-weather-averages/nunavut/ca.aspx https://www.worldweatheronline.com/belcher-islands-weather-a... https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:K%C3%B6ppen-Geiger_Climate_Classification_Map.png https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:K%C3%B6ppen-Geiger_C... In short: yes it will turn into Siberia.
- Izkata 4y agoThe Gulf Stream is an ocean current than brings warmth from the Gulf of New Mexico up the US's coastline and across the Atlantic to western Europe. It's estimated to have a several-degree-C warming effect. The Gulf Stream doesn't seem to be slowing down, so a direct temperature-related change isn't really a concern, but what still is is the ice melt from Greenland - that's mostly freshwater and it getting dumped into the Atlantic could still disrupt it.
- otikik 4y agoProbably both. Colder in some places and hotter in others as a result.
- Waterluvian 4y agoAlmost all climate variability in either direction is unpleasant for settlements long built for a certain expected range.
- eloff 4y agoIt won't just be very unpleasant, but it will have serious ramifications on the world's food supply if growing seasons are dramatically shortened and viable ranges for crops shift south by a large amount.
- osigurdson 4y agoCould that food supply shift to Canada, Russia and possibly Greenland? Obviously, we don't want it and should avoid it.
- mikestew 4y agoIf we’re relying on the British Columbia topsoil to grow our food, we’re screwed. There’s more to agriculture than climate.
- eloff 4y agoOr Canadian shield topsoil. The last ice age scraped Eastern Canada down to bedrock and deposited all the soil in the US.
- eloff 4y agoThe parts of Russia where they grow most of the food is in Europe and would also be affected by the Gulf Stream weakening or halting. Likewise so would Greenland, which will not be good for agriculture anyway, even with serious warming.
- osigurdson 4y agoI found the following regarding Greenland. https://polarjournal.ch/en/2021/03/05/agriculture-in-greenland/ https://polarjournal.ch/en/2021/03/05/agriculture-in-greenla...
- bergenty 4y agoCanada is just gravel. It would take millions of years to generate new top soil so probably not.