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AlexanderHowl · 02-12-2019, 11:09 AM

That level of global cooling would only drop the temperature to what it was in 1950s (the world was still in the last stages of the Little Ice Age when Tambora erupted, which was why it was so devastating). To reach temperatures as low as the Little Ice Age, you would need a VEI 7 event, which would cause agricultural collapse across the globe and a die off of 50%-90% of current human populations due to famine, since we do not have the slack in the system that we had two hundred years ago.

02-12-2019, 11:09 AM	#7
AlexanderHowl Join Date: Feb 2016	Re: Build a Cyberpunk Setting That level of global cooling would only drop the temperature to what it was in 1950s (the world was still in the last stages of the Little Ice Age when Tambora erupted, which was why it was so devastating). To reach temperatures as low as the Little Ice Age, you would need a VEI 7 event, which would cause agricultural collapse across the globe and a die off of 50%-90% of current human populations due to famine, since we do not have the slack in the system that we had two hundred years ago.