Re:Southern Europe in extreme heat, with Greece seeing tempe...
by barelyauser on Friday July 14, 2023 @01:26PM
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Earth heats up. Water evaporates. Clouds reflect sunlight. Earth cools down. Oceans absorb more CO2. Mother nature saves us. Or does it?
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Re:Southern Europe in extreme heat, with Greece seeing tempe...
by codyb on Friday July 14, 2023 @05:38PM
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A common theory is that increased temperatures end up causing an ice age. Bill Bryson discusses that in one of his books and I can’t remember the exact reasoning, maybe it’s something like
Increased heat -> more moisture -> more clouds -> less heat -> ice age
I’m not sure. But it was fairly convincing and has apparently happened on Earth before before humanity according to the records.
Re:Southern Europe in extreme heat, with Greece seeing tempe...
by pan69 on Friday July 14, 2023 @05:55PM
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The book is probably "A Short History of Nearly Everything". I haven't read it in a while so I might be wrong.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_History_of_Nearly_Ever...
Re:Southern Europe in extreme heat, with Greece seeing tempe...
by karmakurtisaani on Saturday July 15, 2023 @01:35PM
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I follow the discussion over climate fairly closely and have never heard of this theory before. It does not sound very credible to be honest.
Re:Southern Europe in extreme heat, with Greece seeing tempe...
by codyb on Saturday July 15, 2023 @09:09PM
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Ah, well here’s some info
https://www.wgbh.org/news/commentary/2021/03/24/weve-known-f...
Which tracks from Bryson’s book, it has to do with the jet streams and underwater currents being interrupted.
I was wrong in my guess though, that’s for sure.
Re:Southern Europe in extreme heat, with Greece seeing tempe...
by karmakurtisaani on Thursday July 20, 2023 @12:37AM
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Ah, ice age in Europe due to Golf stream disturbance. This I have heard and it makes sense.