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I thought that the sea caps were all going to melt, the polar bears would have no homes and the sea level was going to rise by like 50 feet. I was also told th

• cratermoon 3y ago
  Climate change is driven by increasing atmospheric opacity to infrared. The greenhouse effect: sunlight in, heating of the surface, infrared can't return to space. This doesn't just warm the world evenly, it disrupts the circulation of winds and currents globally. As a result, some areas now warm will get cold, and vice versa. Some wet areas will dry up, some dry areas will get wetter. That's the short term, climatologically speaking. Longer term effects are as you say.
• hedora 3y ago
  There is a reason it is called “climate change”, not “global warming”. We are poking a big system we don’t understand, and are sure something bad will happen, just not exactly what. In this scenario (which seems to be playing out), the ice caps rapidly melt, dumping cold water into global ocean currents, causing them to stall out for a thousand years or so. Those currents cool the equator and warm the temperate zones. Without them, the habitable (without indoor heating/cooling) fraction of the planet drops by some large percentage.
• Scarblac 3y ago
  _For Northern Europe_. On average Europe has a much milder climate than Canada, despite being at the same latitudes. That may come to an end. But that's a local effect, and doesn't change the global long term average story.