Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

Vv4nd t1_je6le8n wrote

Usually these kinds of headlines just write stuff like that to be clickbaity, because doom sells well.

However... having read the important parts of the paper, this is worrying. A new model using more information has predicted this and I'd say the headline accurate enough. They could add: if little to nothing is done to curb emissions.

So yeah, this is bad news. Because curb the emissions we will not.

119

KoreyYrvaI t1_je6mp9e wrote

Frostpunk about to get too real.

32

PM_ME_UR_RSA_KEY t1_je80a2u wrote

I'm already investing in steam cores. And those chest lamp thing that everyone will be wearing.

11

Vv4nd t1_je6o5i8 wrote

not really. Well parts of Europe may see colder seasons. This will not be an abrupt change but gradual.

7

Kwiatkowski t1_je84jlx wrote

a decade back in one of my sustainable fuels courses the professor really went on a tangent and deep dive about how the deep ocean currents in the atlantic make most of western europe a habitable place, and how it might be disrupted by the rapid melt of the global ice stores. Also went on about how there were essentially large pools of methane deep in the gulf that were stable now, but if the deep water got just a few degrees higher would permit them to change state to a gas and then bad news bears fire greenhouse gas emissions. Really makes you look forward to the coming apocalypse doesn’t it?

30

Nachtzug79 t1_je8rojf wrote

Climate alarmists can't even say if Europe is getting warmer or cooler...

−35

Kwiatkowski t1_je9jq1c wrote

It IS getting warmer, but the thing is as the globe as a whole heats up big climatological shifts are bound to happen. The northern part of western europe relies on a large subsurface current in the atlantic to keep it abnormally mild compared to the climate you would expect based on its latitude. However as the globe, and specifically the oceans, warm up we are going to see a lot of shifts in the norm as the currents change. Don’t think it just means everything gets cooler then too, the ocean will still be carrying around more heat and will find somewhere to dump it, so likely other areas all along it’s route will see proportional spikes in heat if the current ever stops.

All in all we’re in for a bad time.

7

Additional_Set_5819 t1_je7g3dd wrote

... I think peak emissions are still over a decade out...

Unfortunately everything based of rapid and severe cuts will probably be happening sooner than expected because our optimistic predictions are beyond reality.

7