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Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global

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Re: Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global

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Anyone know a good web site or publication that shows potential outcomes from all these different changes to global climate and where will be the best places to live in the future? Should i be looking to buy plots of property it Alaska?

Aren't all the oligarchs building their escape bunkers in New Zealand?

Much good it will do them, if they can't personally put food on the table...

Re: Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Altitude not latitude. Alaska would be a somewhat bad spot to live if AMOC slows way down. You want places where the local climate is not driven by the ocean or air currents, meaning there is very little air above them. Think Bogota, Quito, Addis Ababa etc.

> Due to its altitude, Quito receives some of the greatest solar radiation in the world, sometimes reaching a UV Index of 24 by solar noon. [0] High altitude isn't exactly a panacea... [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quito#Climate

If you high enough you may reach the controlled environment of the ISS.

Re: Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global

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Anyone know a good web site or publication that shows potential outcomes from all these different changes to global climate and where will be the best places to live in the future? Should i be looking to buy plots of property it Alaska?

AMOC wiki page.[1]

The AMOC has high "inter-annual variability", it changes a lot from year to year. Which is why they need 40 years' data to run statistical tests.

North-western Europe isn't going to switch to a frozen mode, there will be hot years and cold years. It'll be all weather, all the time.

Edit: as to where to live, I'd recommend staying in an OECD country, somewhere with a temperate maritime climate. Not at sea level, but 100 metres / 300ft up is enough. Near Vancouver or Seattle maybe.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturnin...

Re: Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global

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post #6

Anyone know a good web site or publication that shows potential outcomes from all these different changes to global climate and where will be the best places to live in the future? Should i be looking to buy plots of property it Alaska?

Altitude not latitude. Alaska would be a somewhat bad spot to live if AMOC slows way down. You want places where the local climate is not driven by the ocean or air currents, meaning there is very little air above them. Think Bogota, Quito, Addis Ababa etc.

Every local climate is driven by air currents, by which I assume you mean jet stream changes driving pressure changes...aka cold/warm fronts. The jet stream is significantly controlled by the heights of the Alps and the Rocky mountain ranges in the northern hemisphere and the air currents are driven by the Earth's rotation. The Earth is not going to stop rotating and the mountains are not shrinking. This is why weather scientists have been consistent that noticeable changes from global warming will be more extreme weather not massive changes.

Re: Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global

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Anyone know a good web site or publication that shows potential outcomes from all these different changes to global climate and where will be the best places to live in the future? Should i be looking to buy plots of property it Alaska?

Aren't all the oligarchs building their escape bunkers in New Zealand?

If shit actually hit the fan, I assume they'd have to worry about insider threats from their staff.

Re: Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global

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Anyone know a good web site or publication that shows potential outcomes from all these different changes to global climate and where will be the best places to live in the future? Should i be looking to buy plots of property it Alaska?

I be would naïvely think to move to up north to colder places because they will get warmer and have to deal the least with climate refuges. The equator will be death around it will be not that great, beyond that will be refuges. So Russia is looking great. There is a huge climate change boon Russia is set to receive within the next 50-100 years. Maybe Canada too and Scandinavia

If the science fiction authors are to believe Russia will be a horrible place. Not only will the taiga start to burn, there will be hordes of migrants pushing North to escape the unbearable South. There are quite a few people living below Mongolia....

Re: Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Aren't all the oligarchs building their escape bunkers in New Zealand?

If shit actually hit the fan, I assume they'd have to worry about insider threats from their staff.

Isn't the trick to have a dead-man switch installed in your person which blows up the compound in the event that you're killed (or die of natural causes I suppose)? I'm sure they've thought through a lot of scenarios already.

Re: Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global

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Anyone know a good web site or publication that shows potential outcomes from all these different changes to global climate and where will be the best places to live in the future? Should i be looking to buy plots of property it Alaska?

The American midwest is relatively safe to settle in. St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Chicago in particular.

Re: Gulf Stream weakening now 99% certain, and ramifications will be global

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Anyone know a good web site or publication that shows potential outcomes from all these different changes to global climate and where will be the best places to live in the future? Should i be looking to buy plots of property it Alaska?

The American midwest is relatively safe to settle in. St. Louis, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Indianapolis, Milwaukee, Detroit, and Chicago in particular.

The Great Lakes contain a fifth of the world's surface fresh water.
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