Climate Change/Mass Extinction Megathread

[crazy canuck]

They have it all wrong. The problem with wind farms is that we already have enough wind in the wild.  Wasting valuable resources, and government subsidies, on producing farmed wind is sheer folly.

[mongers]

[Tamas]

Just so I can prepare, is Britain going to be colder or warmer because of run away global warming? I think it is supposed to get colder because the Atlantic will be too warm for the Gulf stream to.. stream, so I guess that implies it won't be warm enough to replace the Gulf stream on its own right? Maybe if we open even more coal plants we could aim for that?

[crazy canuck]

Yeah, the irony, as most of the planet becomes too hot, Western Europe will become frigid in the Winter.  South Ireland, which can seem a lot like Bermuda because of the warm current hitting its shores, will have a dramatic change.

[mongers]

Just so I can prepare, is Britain going to be colder or warmer because of run away global warming? I think it is supposed to get colder because the Atlantic will be too warm for the Gulf stream to.. stream, so I guess that implies it won't be warm enough to replace the Gulf stream on its own right? Maybe if we open even more coal plants we could aim for that?

I think the jury will be out on that for a while, though there is now some serious modelling going on:



https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cn938ze4yyeo

[Richard Hakluyt]

Rees-Mogg will be pleased, there hasn't been a frost fair for centuries.

[Duque de Bragança]

Yeah, the irony, as most of the planet becomes too hot, Western Europe will become frigid in the Winter.  South Ireland, which can seem a lot like Bermuda because of the warm current hitting its shores, will have a dramatic change.

Hibernia will deserve its Latin name, at last!

[mongers]

Rees-Mogg will be pleased, there hasn't been a frost fair for centuries.

 

And judging by that map, I can foresee Norgy leading some desperate Viking raiding parties.

[Tamas]

So if the average temperature over here goes down 1.5c but will have gone up like 2-3c before doing so, that sounds like a win.  the island will be REALLY overpopulated.

[Iormlund]

That would make our summers slightly less unbearable.

Was hoping for a larger effect, though.

[Valmy]

It would incredibly unfair if the rest of the world suffers immensely from global warming but Europe just happens to come out great.