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And the only major country actively pushing hard and having success with clean energy is still China, right?
No
So does that mean ice age, if so, what’s the timeframe on that?
Not in any kind of hemispheric or durable sense. It does mean that much of Europe becomes appreciably colder for a period of centuries; think of how different eastern Canada is from Europe today.
No, it mainly means a colder Europe because the current won’t carry warm water up north. To my knowledge, it won’t have much impact on warming rates, just shift that heat around. That would likely mean warmer climates around the Gulf of Mexico and tropical Atlantic since the heat will just linger down there, but I’m not as sure about its impact outside of Europe.
UK about to be fucked.
Start snow tire business, it’s going to go from 0 to 100 quickly.
UK, France and western Europe more generally getting a bit colder isnt too big an issue with temperatures rising anyway, the more concerning part of it is that it will make the climate much drier and affect what crops can be grown.
IIRC it’s more about the extremes the UK will end up with - hotter and longer hot spells, colder and longer cold spells, longer deluges of rain, longer periods of drought, etc.
edit: Oh and I think there was concern about the pattern of rain in western Africa shifting further north (?) resulting in mass famines in densely populated areas.
To be fair the Little Ice Age was also just a European thing, and there aren’t really any famous ice ages other than that one and the paleolithic one.
