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Rikard's avatar

Biggest worry for all of Scandinavia, climate-wise, used to be the Gulf Stream starting to turn west at an earlier point, meaning arctic winds would hit us unimpeded and still be very cold.

Doesn't havr to change more than a little either for yearly mean and average temps to drop two degrees, resulting in rapidly growing glaciers, longer and colder winters and permafrost forming in the northernmost parts.

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epimetheus's avatar

Oh, my, if there'd be only a thing we could do…like, say, generate electricity, eh?

As to your point, the so-called 'Little Ice Age' of the early modern period featured just such 1-2 degrees lower temperatures, although our ancestors didn't have electricity (of combustion-powered engines).

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