It will only get worse as time goes on. The heat we are seeing now has a lag time on the order of decades. So give it another 20 years and it will only get hotter.
For a while, and then it'll get really cold when AMOC collapses.
From what I've read, not exactly.
AMOC collapse would cause weather patterns in Europe to swing wildly between scorching hot to frigid cold, causing crop/local ecosystem collapse.
So first you're going to be really hungry, then--depending upon how long you make it--you'll be bitterly cold or insufferably hot.
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I am quite concerned as a south European, the heat every summer becomes more and more unbearable, the official temperatures don't do it justice, I have seen temperatures above 52° celsius on my car thermometer parked in the shade. We have no protection against this extreme heat, on the cold you can dress warmer, but with the heat there is nothing we can do if you have to work in the street. Migraines all the time, heat rashes all the time, food spoils all the time, wildfires all the time. A constant nightmare
The secret is that the temperature underground is much cooler than surface temperatures. To take advantage of this, you dig a hole about 6 feet down, lie down flat, then pull the dirt back over yourself and fill the hole or have someone else do it for you.
This guys gets it!
There's this sort of little known concept known as "climate change", it was known as "global warming" a long time ago. The idea is that as we releaae greenhouse gases like CO2 into the atmosphere, more of the sun's energy gets trapped inside the atmosphere making it warmer.
As it gets warmer, stuff like this is expected to become more common. We haven't known about this for very long, and so our greenhouse gas emissions continue to speed up day by day, but if we can spread the word about this new and very important phonomenon, we might be able to avoid the worst of it in the long run.
Or maybe it will all just go away and get better one day if we just do nothing and wait and see. I don't think we know enough about this "climate change" thing yet to really make any drastic changes. I mean what if we're wrong?
I bet building a ton of data centres is the answer ✨
🤷♂️ can't hurt....
Hey if that was real scientists would have warned us about it years ago. But not your woke mind virus scientists. Real ones!
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Good thing climate change is a liberal hoax. Otherwise I'd be worried, right?
There‘s even cultish alarmists that call it „climate catastrophe“ by now. Weirdos.
And then there‘s even people saying it‘s all because we do economics wrong, or something. Lol!
it will all just go away and get better one day
Something like AMOC stopping would do the trick. Or it might overshoot and then we have a really cold winter too.
Yeah, my house was built for extreme heat in the traditional Spanish way - it has every trick available to stay cool without needing electricity.
During heatwaves these days, however, it gets heatsoaked and becomes too hot inside. So, we've gotta put in a heat exchanger :-/
Managed to keep my indoor temp under 30 today here in Normandy. No AC. Not looking forward to the next few days.
My german apartment is managing, but these thick walls are getting warmer day by day. I'm afraid it's going to become an oven before long
I'm moving to Iceland
Sorry, it's "Slushland" now
Good luck. The glaciers are melting faster than ever, and that's their primary source of fresh water. And nearly all the food, and really all the other goods too, are imported.
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