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We're having a profoundly cold June and July in Sussex this year. Again. I love the idea that we're tearing ourselves apart debating what to do about global warming while it looks like we're entering a cooling phase. If not (please god not) a little ice age.
Though that's probably just the result of weather variance that the science of climate change accounts for, dropping temperatures in britain can also be linked directly to the effects of global warming. The reason that your island and western europe isn't a barely habitable tundra like other parts of the world situated at the same lattitude is because of the gulf stream, which is responsible with bumping the average western europe temperatures by as much as 5 degrees C; A warming of the atlantic ocean would disrupt this process, causing temperatures to drop to "normal", which is to say, similar to what you see in central canada.
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[–] Stoaty 0 points 3 points 3 points (+3|-0) ago
We're having a profoundly cold June and July in Sussex this year. Again. I love the idea that we're tearing ourselves apart debating what to do about global warming while it looks like we're entering a cooling phase. If not (please god not) a little ice age.
[–] rayc31415 0 points 1 point 1 point (+1|-0) ago
Relevant xkcd: https://xkcd.com/1321/ Soon: Snow in Sussex? Take that global warning tossers!
[–] Cantbebothered ago
Though that's probably just the result of weather variance that the science of climate change accounts for, dropping temperatures in britain can also be linked directly to the effects of global warming. The reason that your island and western europe isn't a barely habitable tundra like other parts of the world situated at the same lattitude is because of the gulf stream, which is responsible with bumping the average western europe temperatures by as much as 5 degrees C; A warming of the atlantic ocean would disrupt this process, causing temperatures to drop to "normal", which is to say, similar to what you see in central canada.