• antidote101@lemmy.world
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    9 months ago

    Wait, if we have an ice age during global warming… Won’t they kinda cancel each other out?

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      9 months ago

      No, but this kind of reasoning is why it’s referred to as climate change now. We don’t just get higher temperatures, the defining feature is unpredictable weather.

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        9 months ago

        So does that mean you can’t say because we don’t know the actual effects? They’re unpredictable?

        …but isn’t the main theory about the AMOC shutting down that it may bring on an ice age?

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          9 months ago

          the idea of northern europe ending up in a deep freeze while much of the rest of the world bakes is not new. these scenarios have been modeled for decades. I remember over 20 years ago, while naively considering “escape options”, learning about the AMOC, the great conveyer and other modeled outcomes.

          long story short… there is no escape. we either fix the fundamental problems in our societies (and adapt to the damage we have already done) or it all collapses into a probable species ending spiral.