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And presumably there's another side of it too? Like all that hot air would have to be somewhere else if not Western Europe. That somewhere else would also have
by rozap 1y ago
And presumably there's another side of it too? Like all that hot air would have to be somewhere else if not Western Europe. That somewhere else would also have a bad time, just in the opposite direction. Very bleak.
- raffraffraff 1y agoYep. It's like the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer... Except with heat.
- barbazoo 1y agoCrazy in my mind to think about the system moving unimaginable amounts of energy around the planet and now we're changing it on a time scale shorter than what the planet usually sees. Reminds me of what I read about the Younger Dryas and how temperatures changed within centuries, if not decades.
- api 1y agoI've heard some speculation that rapid climate change at that time could be the origin of global flood myths in so many cultures. Imagine you're just minding your own business and a glacial dam breaks. As far as you're concerned, you just experienced a global flood.
- baq 1y agoMelting so much ice in such a short time without some kind of a dam made of not-ice is physically unimaginable. Water has soooo much heat capacity it'd take hundreds of years unless we're talking about a yellowstone or deccan traps eruption under the south pole or something (haven't done the math, but I'm not sure if it'd be enough).
- shaboinkin 1y agoSomething like this already happened relatively recently. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods?wprov=sfti1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missoula_floods?wprov=sfti1
- api 1y agoThe water is already liquid. It’s just held back by an ice dam that fails. That’s what I meant by glacial dams.
- phkahler 1y ago>> Crazy in my mind to think about the system moving unimaginable amounts of energy around the planet and now we're changing it on a time scale shorter than what the planet usually sees. The inter-glacial periods are 10K to 20K years. We are currently around 12000 years into it. "AI overview" keeps telling me human induced climate change may lengthen it, but the collapse of the AMOC might just end it.