• OhneHose@feddit.org
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    20 hours ago

    If amoc collapses, Europe won’t be 10C° colder, but the weather is gonna be more extreme. We’ll have super hot summers and super cold winters. If you check the globe how far north Europe actually is, you’ll see that we will basically get Canadian winters and Continental summers(hot and dry).

    • mojofrododojo@lemmy.world
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      20 hours ago

      the crazy thing is, we have very little concrete evidence of what the fuck will happen, no one’s ever taken the climate for a ride like this. we’re literally unprecedented in the annals of disaster lol.

      but the source for that was:

      There is a consensus the AMOC keeps northern and western Europe warmer than it would be otherwise,[17] with the difference of 4 °C (7.2 °F) and 10 °C (18 °F) depending on the area.

      https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation