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[–] 98 points 9 months ago (6 children)

AMOC doing some heavy lifiting

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation

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  • [–] 35 points 9 months ago (1 child)

    Also the Mediterranean acts like a huge heat buffer. It basically stops the polar winds from reaching southern Europe.

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  • [–] 11 points 9 months ago

    In addition to there being a huge mountain range in the way. The Alps block/slow down a lot of the cold air currents that do make their way down from the polar regions. That's why cities like Turin and Milan still have cold climates in the north. Cold air still makes it's way over the Alps but is slowed and is reheated as it travels south so cities like Genoa/Florence/Rome are much milder in the winter.

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  • [–] 27 points 9 months ago

    A large part of it is also simply the fact that at the midlatitudes westerlies dominate, which means that western Europe receives mild air from the ocean, while the US east cost receives more extreme weather from the continent.

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  • [–] 2 points 9 months ago

    Europe is so fucked when climate change wrecks the AMOC by melting too much ice into the north Atlantic

    I don't think there's any climate change scenario that's still plausible that doesn't melt the Arctic, and I don't think there's any way for the Arctic to melt without wrecking the AMOC

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