Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream
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#2If true, this seems bad.
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#3I sure hope Western Europe likes it cold. Paris is on roughly the same latitude of Quebec city.
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#4So what do we do about this? Increase the salinity? Install huge pumps? (The last thing is only partly in jest.)
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#5Makes me look back at the last 20-30 years of discourse in the United States and let out a deep sigh. Had CFC propellants emerged today, I highly doubt the U.S. would have been a signatory to the Montreal Protocol — just to own the libs or avoid hindering the market by a boogeyman of 0.0001% overhead or some other form of contrarian political identity differentiation.
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#6Can't read the whole article, but how radically can the Gulf Stream really change? Isn't a current going in that general direction more or less mandated by the Coriolis effect? It's why I figured the west and east coasts of continents at similar latitudes (both in the Northern and Southern hemispheres) have similar climate patterns. (West coasts more temperate, east coasts more variable and humid).
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#7I was able to read only the abstract - "Rent or Buy article for $8.99".
Brings up the question, what does "rent an article" mean ?
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#8Too bad it's paywalled :(
Re: Observation-based early-warning signals for a collapse of the Gulf Stream
#9Can't read the whole article, but how radically can the Gulf Stream really change? Isn't a current going in that general direction more or less mandated by the Coriolis effect? It's why I figured the west and east coasts of continents at similar latitudes (both in the Northern and Southern hemispheres) have similar climate patterns. (West coasts more temperate, east coasts more variable and humid).
Barcelona and Washington D.C. are on the same latitude, the weather difference is caused by the gulf stream pushing warm air north, I would imagine it could stop doing that.
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#10Before someone makes the inevitable joke, no this will not help offset climate change temperature gains and neutralize the risk of heat-waves.
The summer temperatures will continue to get hotter. It's the winter temperatures that will get colder. Both require energy use to keep housing liveable. Which, unless we dramatically transition our energy generation to renewables, will just continue exacerbating the climate problem.
Ugh.