The Gulf Stream could COLLAPSE as early as 2025

Lightnix said:
Either way if the liveable geography changes at all it implies a massive **** show war - if history has taught us much it's that nation states don't really like the UN telling them where it's fairest to draw borders.
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Yeah I won't take much.
I mean covid was tiny and we were lucky how little disruption it caused. Yet it still caused huge disruption in financial circles.

Imagine how little climate change would be needed to tip everything upside down.

And covid was an event. Climate change isn't going to come and go a year later.
 
413x said:
Yeah I won't take much.
I mean covid was tiny and we were lucky how little disruption it caused. Yet it still caused huge disruption in financial circles.

Imagine how little climate change would be needed to tip everything upside down.

And covid was an event. Climate change isn't going to come and go a year later.
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Yeah exactly. I think a big lesson that we were supposed to "never forget" is that it doesn't take a whole lot to spark a horror on a scale we've never seen before. Imagine what people are capable of doing when the ground is effectively disappearing from under them.
 
Its okay we can just migrate over to Canada across the frozen Atlantic and if we need hot air we can just bring up how many genders there are.
 
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CaptainRAVE said:
Lots of things could happen by then. No point worrying about it, few seem prepared to do what is necessary.
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I've started stocking up on toilet roll already.
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413x said:
Looks like it will be the other way around. Africa will get hotter
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I thought I read the gulf stream collapse would and cause the winter temperatures in Europe to drops by 30c, basically a localised ice age. If Africa heats up from this, I think that would apply more so to Northern Africa and maybe a bit in the centre, Brazil would probably heat up as well then.

But I think southern Europe is still kind of warm in winter so you could move there, with no Gulf Stream the average temperature in December in London would be minus 20 Celsius, but Southern Spain or other areas on the Mediterranean would only be around 0c to 5c
 
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Hagar said:
The gulf stream drives warm sea currents from the equator along the eastern seaboard of the United States down the west coast of the UK producing warmer wet temperate weather conditions to the UK.
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I don't think people have even considered what that means to food - crops and sea.

Perhaps the channel will freeze over - should mean immigration won't need a boat..
 
413x said:
I genuinely need to move house soon before the sea levels start rising. Imagine having your house valued at 0 because it'll be under water in 50 years! :D
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It's interesting, because few people are taking that seriously at the moment. Sooner or later there will be a real panic about it, and you are quite right that many of the more expensive properties in the country are going to be valued at 0.

And of course, business and the government continue to invest in London.....

But it's also depressing that so many people in this thread seem to think the topic is funny. The Gulf Stream IS slowing down and showing signs of collapse. It's happened in the past and it can happen really fast. Temperatures will drop 10 degrees in the UK pretty much overnight if it stops. It would make life in the UK very difficult. Not to mention that the ocean will actually start to die. And yet, people joke about it. Makes you think we really are a doomed race.
 
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SpellowHouse said:
It's interesting, because few people are taking that seriously at the moment. Sooner or later there will be a real panic about it, and you are quite right that many of the more expensive properties in the country are going to be valued at 0.

And of course, business and the government continue to invest in London.....

But it's also depressing that so many people in this thread seem to think the topic is funny. The Gulf Stream IS slowing down and showing signs of collapse. It's happened in the past and it can happen really fast. Temperatures will drop 10 degrees in the UK pretty much overnight if it stops. It would make life in the UK very difficult. Not to mention that the ocean will actually start to die. And yet, people joke about it. Makes you think we really are a doomed race.
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It is a genuine concern to be honest.

I'm planing to move anyway. But there is no way I would stay in this house 10-20 years or more. It's only 6-7m above sea level on a flood plain.

I don't think anything will happen (ie massive house price falls) until sea level actual starts sucking up land visibly. But at that point people will already be thinking "ooh I can't buy that house because I can't sell it".

So yeah. Although it does sound a bit dramatic.. Its also not. As obviously losing a house would obliterate any hope of retirement.

It will happen I'm sure.
 
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413x said:
Here's a better source

www.newscientist.com

Atlantic current shutdown is a real danger, suggests simulation

The most detailed computer model run so far shows that melting ice sheets could cause the collapse of the major ocean current that warms Europe, but it's still unclear how likely this is to happen
www.newscientist.com www.newscientist.com
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Critical bit being,

"However, to produce this collapse, the researchers had to run the model for 2500 years. And they had to add a huge amount of freshwater – less than in previous simulations, but still around 80 times more than is currently entering the ocean as Greenland’s ice sheet melts. “So that is absurd and not very realistic,” says van Westen.

Moreover, the simulation didn’t involve any global warming. The team now plans to rerun the simulation to include it."
 
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