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Kwiatkowski t1_je84jlx wrote

Reply to comment by Vv4nd in Melting Antarctic ice predicted to cause rapid slowdown of deep ocean current by 2050 by Lakerlion

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?

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Nachtzug79 t1_je8rojf wrote

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

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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.

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