The bosses behind the big four.

The emergency meeting began in their respective safe houses, through a very confidential and exclusive network.

Caesar looked at the others in the video interface, and then spoke first:

"Ladies and gentlemen, this abrupt change in climate is very likely to turn into a huge crisis for us, and now the open-air agricultural production in the high latitudes has been seriously affected, and if the situation continues to deteriorate, you should all know the consequences by then."

Thomas? Morgan and others naturally know that after all, they also have think tanks and professional meteorologists internally.

It was precisely because they knew that this sudden climate crisis could bring catastrophe that they hurriedly convened secret talks.

As one of the few Duke of Windsor who was qualified to participate in the meeting within the Free Commonwealth, his expression was a little gloomy:

"Now the ice sheets in the north and south poles are expanding, the impact of the North Atlantic warm current is too great, the temperature in the British Isles is 2~3 degrees Celsius lower than in previous years, and the unstable climate also has a great impact on agricultural production in the middle and low latitudes."

In this regard, Louis of the Europa Commonwealth? Comte went straight to the point: "We are all clear about these situations, let's talk about how to solve them!" ”

Thomas? Morgan's expression was solemn: "Our meteorological research team has studied and used supercomputing to simulate, and unless the North Atlantic warm current can be restored to normal, the ice age will be difficult to stop." ”

Caesar frowned, and then came up with a simple and crude idea: "Can increasing the use of fossil fuels, or directly releasing methane from fermentation into the atmosphere, increase the greenhouse effect and thus suppress the outbreak of ice ages?" ”

"This ......"

Everyone looked at each other.

However, the Duke of Windsor shook his head: "It's useless, the carbon dioxide and methane we release can increase the greenhouse effect, but the solar energy reflected by the ice sheets at the north and south poles exceeds the thermal insulation effect brought by the greenhouse effect." ”

"And if you continue to release carbon dioxide and methane, the oxygen level in the atmosphere will continue to decline, which will cause health problems, and you don't plan to stay in the man-made ecosystem for the rest of your life, right?"

Obviously, although Britain has not fallen to the point of joining the Free Association in order to survive, there are still some remnants of the legacy left by the era of the Empire.

Their study of atmospheric science is at least better than the frizzy, leaky Lucia.

Many meteorological research groups have now found that the continued release of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide and methane may not only not suppress the onset of the ice age, but may accelerate it.

Because carbon dioxide is water-soluble, it can dissolve into seawater, causing seawater to become acidic.

This, combined with the increase in sea temperature in tropical seas, affects changes in sea salinity, which can lead to changes in deep-sea density flows.

This is one of the intrinsic reasons for the current interruption of the North Atlantic Warm Current.

The current systems of the five oceans are all connected, and if one part of the current is abnormal, the currents in other seas will be affected as well.

Caesar's proposal to increase carbon dioxide and methane emissions would result in hotter tropics, colder colder zones, and more frequent extreme weather in the mid-latitudes.

This is clearly a bad idea.

"And you have some proposals? You can't do nothing, can you? Caesar was also in a hurry.

Master of the Europa Commonwealth? Feng, looked at everyone, and then wiped the cold sweat on his forehead: "How about increasing the scale of indoor agriculture and nuclear power plants?" ”

"Indoor farming? Nuclear power plant? "Caesar was very entangled.

Technically, if indoor farming and nuclear power plants are pushed hard, it can indeed solve the reduction in agricultural production caused by extreme weather.

The problem is that this investment is also astronomical.

However, without indoor agriculture and nuclear power plants, the future open-air agriculture in the middle and high latitudes will definitely be seriously affected.

You must know that at this time, the population of the four major forces is not a minority.

There are 520 million people in the Free Association, 130 million in Lucia, 450 million in the Europa Commonwealth and 790 million in other powers.

In addition, there are some smaller powers attached to the four major powers, including 160 million people in Central Asia and other Asian regions (excluding the neutral West Asian region), and 80 million people in Eastern Europe and Northern Europe.

The total population of the free world today is 2.13 billion people.

With such a huge population, if calculated at the standard of 400 kilograms of food per capita per year, this would require the consumption of 852 million tons of food.

If there is no abrupt change in the climate, 852 million tons of grain can easily produce 1.4 billion tons of grain from the homeland of the four major forces alone.

However, not now, in the high-latitude Lucia, Maple Leaf Country, and Europa, the agricultural production capacity may have to be cut in half.

In the Great Lakes Plain in northern North America, the coastal plain in the northeast, and the northern part of the Mississippi Great Plains, agricultural production will also be reduced to varying degrees.

This year alone, ABCD and the agricultural data analysis agencies of major powers predict that the grain production of the free world will fall by 2~300 million tons this year, and the scale of only about 1.05 billion ~ 1.1 billion tons remains.

In addition, the yield of cash crops such as sunflower seeds, rapeseeds, soybeans, peanuts, sugarcane, sugar beet, and cotton should also be reduced by 20~30%.

If it weren't for the ruthlessness of the four major forces, it is estimated that prices would have gone up to heaven by now.

In order to deal with the rush to buy, the four major forces can only start to limit purchases, and at the same time make every effort to crack down on hoarding.

However, these countermeasures are all palliative, not curative.

If the problem of the supply of agricultural products is not solved, restrictions on purchases and crackdowns on hoarding can only stabilize for a period of time.

For Master? Feng's proposal was debated by the crowd, with the main disagreement over how to reduce the production costs of indoor agriculture and the safety of nuclear power plants.

In fact, they have another option, which is to abandon some of the high-latitude areas and move the population to the middle and low latitudes.

This plan was opposed by Lucia and the Europa Commonwealth.

Lucia is a region with no low and medium latitudes, while the Commonwealth of Europa is a narrow Mediterranean coast, which is a low and middle latitude region.

In fact, none of the four major forces are willing to give up the high-latitude areas, after all, although these places are cold, they are relatively rich in various resources, and they are also the rear of their resistance to the Homo sapiens company.

If the relocation of the population to the middle and low latitudes, it is basically next to Homo sapiens, which is simply to deliver food.

Do you know why only more than 10 million people in Lucia went to work in Homo sapiens?

The reason is that the distance between the two sides is too far, and it is much more difficult for ordinary people to go to work in Homo sapiens companies under various conditions.

And those areas that are close to Homo sapiens, such as Annan, no matter how restricted, many people have a way to run to work with Homo sapiens.

Now the four major powers wish to be separated from Homo sapiens by the Pacific Ocean.

As for whether the four major forces have thought about joining forces and fighting with Homo sapiens, they have certainly thought about this idea, and have even done supercomputing simulations.

However, the results of various deductions were not good, and either the whole army was wiped out or completely defeated.

Thomas? Morgan knew that Homo sapiens could quietly electrocute a person, which made him dispel the idea of fighting to the death with Homo sapiens.

Now they just want to maintain the status quo and not mess with Homo sapiens.