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Thermodynamicist t1_jb0wccn wrote

Context.

I suppose this is going to make life pretty challenging in the UK.

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[deleted] t1_jb0zjr7 wrote

Everywhere really. The entire climate that people and animals have been used to for 1000s of years will change to less hospitable conditions.

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Taparu t1_jb59jcm wrote

I imagine some places that are currently inhospitable or at least uncomfortable will get better.

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[deleted] t1_jb63tz7 wrote

Maybe not. They might flood. Like, lots of water in a desert isn’t actually good.

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bar10 t1_jb49877 wrote

>AMOC will bring less warm water northwards, and this will partly offset the warming effect of the greenhouse gases over western Europe. For the gradual weakening that is likely over the 21st Century, the overall effect is still a warming.

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Thermodynamicist t1_jb5vyoq wrote

The question is how this overall warming effect is distributed.

E.g. assume it's 15 ºC average to begin with. We might approximate this as a sine wave over the year with an amplitude of 10 ºC.

In the case of 3 ºC warming, we might then have 18 ºC with the same 10 ºC amplitude sine wave, or we might have 18 ºC ± 20 ºC. These scenarios would be very different despite having the same average temperature.

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