Yes but what will this mean for the economy and investors?
This is basically the only response and important question that motivates government and big business (who own governments)
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Yes but what will this mean for the economy and investors?
This is basically the only response and important question that motivates government and big business (who own governments)
Yes, Britain will overheat... for a few years (just long enough to spend billions of £ installing air conditioners) until the AMOC collapses, after which it will be swiftly plunged into a localized ice age.
(Just to be clear, lest anybody accuse me of some kind of denialism: the reason for the AMOC collapse is due to global warming melting Greenland's ice sheet, and the global effect will continue to be an increase in temperature. It's only northwest Europe that's going to freeze.)
How cold is it supposed to get? They're installing heat pumps, not ACs so while the current generation of heat pumps will struggle with the ice age, cold weather performance keeps improving.
How cold is it supposed to get?
The sources I've read estimate a drop of 3-3.5 °C. For comparison, the Little Ice Age had a global average temperature drop of only a little over 0.5 °C, although to be fair, it varied in different parts of the world and I haven't been able to find a reference for how much the drop was in the UK, specifically. Still, my guess is that it's more than enough for Frost Fairs on the Thames to become a thing again. Oh yeah: and also completely fuck up all the UK's agriculture, BTW.
They’re installing heat pumps, not ACs so while the current generation of heat pumps will struggle with the ice age, cold weather performance keeps improving.
Yeah, that's definitely not just more prudent in this situation, but also just a better idea all around anyway.
Also, I think technology has already progressed enough that it's the previous generation of heat pumps that would struggle, not the current gen.
I hate the "too late" discourse. Best time to curb emissions is the past, next best time is now. The fastest we act, the better off we’ll be.
I have this nagging feeling that this posture is just preparing public opinion for geoengineering, the last grift before collapse. Maybe its cause as well. Oh and fatalism is going to help undermine current decarbonizing efforts too, so win-win for big money.
This. We also have to find a way to actively reverse the damage.
I cant believe people were warning about insignificant things like extremely hot summers, no snow and more natural disasters, but not about the real threat of global warming: no more pasta in Italy
Well... Fuck
This is a bit different from the IPCC forecasts.
Is there an updated, well regarded, set of regional climate predictions?