Reply #1: This would lead to the starvation of millions... if not billions... [View All]

[XemaSab]

This is part of the system that brings the Monsoons to Southeast Asia. Failure of the Monsoons would result in massive famine in India, among other places.

Not to mention the fact that fisheries and marine ecosystems along the west coast of North and South America would fail due to reduction in upwelling. Futhermore, several years of flooding in California would devastate the economy.

This is no trivial thing... Walker circulation controls conditions on both sides of the Pacific.