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> If the Atlantic currents do collapse, Europe will likely be covered by a glacier. I think you misread the article here. Looking at Figure 15 (temperature cha
by bradrn 2y ago
> If the Atlantic currents do collapse, Europe will likely be covered by a glacier.
I think you misread the article here. Looking at Figure 15 (temperature change caused by a total AMOC collapse), it appears that Britain, Iceland, Scandinavia etc. would cool by around 2°C, whereas the rest of Europe warms by roughly the same amount. The consequences of such a strong temperature gradient are worryingly hard to predict, but don’t involve Europe being ‘covered by a glacier’. (Scandinavia, maybe? But not most of Europe.)
- zarzavat 2y agoIs that 2 degrees of cooling gross or net the predicted warming? i.e. is that 2 degrees below pre-industrial levels, or is it x-2 where x is warming due to global warming ≈ about pre-industrial levels.