How much of earths climate and global politics would change?
Also what about after? How would the landscape and the surrounding environment change with these extremes in temperature?
What if America turned 100 degrees Celsius and Russia turned -100 degrees Celsius for 4 months?
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Do you know how hot 100C is? Or how cold -100C is? End of all life in US and Russia
Everyone dies, that sure would change everything
just 4 months ?
Not a lot of time to adapt technology…
100c for 4 months, water boils and evaporate; everybody and everything dies; not sure if taking refuge underground will help, you still need to evacuate the heat in some way
-100c for 4 months, we can survive, the ground will freeze, but not completely; lost of seeds and roots will survive; people will die in large quantity, but many will take refuge underground.
I’m not a climate expert, but I imagine huge storms will happen because of temperature differencial;
Everyone in both places is dead…
Earth would become uninhabitable. The heat from the America would spread to the rest of the globe as the heat is removed via Russia. This means there would be a more moderate temperature band between the two which due to rapidly changing temperatures, it would result in extreme storms. Not to mention, the water on half the planet would vaporize and the other half would be completely frozen.
Note: the “moderate” zone likely would not be a band shape, due to America and Russia not being two points completely on the opposite side of the planet but I can’t predict what the shape would be. Also moderate temperature, might not be the best terminology since there would be rapid temperature changes from ridiculously high to ridiculously low.
People have survived almost -90°C in Antarctica for short amounts of time, and a lot of cold weather equipment is available in Russian Siberia, possibly giving a few hundred, maybe a few thousand people enough time to escape alive. No one will survive 100°C, so anyone in America not already on the border with sufficient momentum outward to escape within a few seconds is literally cooked.
So Russia wins this round.