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The Great Freeze

When a New Ice Age Begins

"What if the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation collapsed, triggering a new ice age?"

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First Winter
The Endless Winter
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Five Years Later
The Frozen North
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Fifty Years Later
Ice Age Civilization
First 24 Hours
First Winter
The Aftermath
Five Years Later
The New Reality
Fifty Years Later
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First Winter

The Endless Winter

Temperatures in Europe and North America drop 15°C below normal. Summer never comes.

Key Points

  • 1UK temperatures match Siberia
  • 2Northern crops fail completely
  • 3Energy crisis as heating demands triple
  • 4Mass migration southward begins
  • 5Arctic ice expansion accelerates

Statistics

15°C
Temperature drop
90% (N. hemisphere)
Crop failure

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