Like all large things taken for granted, the North Atlantic Current knew the importance of what it did and thought long and hard before jacking it in.
An elemental system shifting oceans of warm water from Mexico to Europe slowed in protest at anthropogenic climate change then stopped altogether.
Nature’s last laugh. A landmass expecting to fry now pondered winters twenty degrees below average. No North Atlantic Current, no band of temperate air wrapping the Celtic fringe. Have another ice age, Nature seemed to be saying. Exactly what you didn’t order.
From Galway to Hamburg, people laboured through a winter of deadening snow and ice.
The next year, they stayed at home.
The year after that, they felt like staying in bed.
The year after that, they did.
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