re: #91 Love-Child of Cassandra and Sisyphus

In one of Rahmstorf’s slides he answers that near the end. He points out that with the British Isles and Scandinavia becoming colder (during an AMOC shutdown), the problem will be that Germany (and also Switzerland) will see more dramatic weather events as they are between a colder north and a warmer south.

So one does not get to just even out the temps.

The dynamics of weather will be a bitch.

Absolutely. I was being a little snarky but If it shuts down, the effects will be profound and global. Global heat transfer from the equator to the poles will be tremendously affected. The same heat will have to be transported to the poles but with one of the major conveyors shut down, the effects on weather will be dramatic. We might need to add TWO more classes of hurricanes instead of one.

In the end, the heat flux will likely stay the same just a different, more chaotic path.