Western Europe is about to get so fucked by climate change. The area is basically unlivable without the North Atlantic Current - geographically the UK/France/G

Western Europe is about to get so fucked by climate change. The area is basically unlivable without the North Atlantic Current - geographically the UK/France/Germany are at about the same latitude as Alberta and the Siberian Taiga, Scandinavia is the same latitude as Alaska and the Yukon. They would have similar climate if it weren't for warm Gulf water circulating in the Atlantic. There's evidence that the current is already slowing [1], and the midpoint of estimates for when it might collapse is at 1.8C warming, something we seem pretty likely to blow past within a decade or two. It'd be bad for Australia and the Southwest US as well, since collapse of the AMOC would bring permanent La Nina conditions. [1] https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/14/1041321/climate-change-ocean-atlantic-circulation/ https://www.technologyreview.com/2021/12/14/1041321/climate-...