A Warmer Wetter World

A Warmer Wetter World

1250's - POD. The temperature in the North Atlantic is around 1-2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer. In OTL the average temperature begins a slight drop. In ATL, the temperature remains on a gradual rise.

1347 -A proximately 100 years later, The Bubonic Plague arrives in Europe.
Over the past three hunrded years, times have been fine for farmers. A Bounty is produced each year, and serfs could often pay their lords in grain. Often villages could sport a few thousand people.
The Plague begins it's sweep through Europe in Italy. From there it spread in all directions. The people in Europe could expect to live to 40 with their bountiful foodstuffs, but this glut often attracted plague-carrying rats. Although a handful of peasents were healthier that OTL's counterparts, the more food meant more rats breeding living and spreading plague.
The death toll was around 24 million, approx. 1/3 of Europe's population.​


In a drought stricken East Mediterranean, The times were tougher. The Byzantine Empire had collapsed due to the conspiring of a Civil War, Plague, and the Drought. The Ottoman Empire, while not collapsing like it's neighbor, was under stress to move north. Dust storms from desolate farms plagued the countryside. Water was in everyone's mind. The Mongols were pecking away at their eastern edge . Many began to look north at Greece as a refuge.​


The Mongols were having wonderful times. North China and the Middle East were arid at best, but Russia was now as wet and warm as Southern China, and repeated raids were weakening bug under their boot. Russia was their cupboard for horses and food. The stage was set for another reshuffling of the World's border.​

In The Americas, Increasing drought in Central America is straining the Mayan cities, causing them to start collapsing, which increases the violent encounters with the Aztecs, Forcing them to start moving north. Tribes north of the Aztecs are put under pressure.
Over the next decades this will bring the Civilized Tribes north into Texas and California.

The Rocky Mountain Locust is spurred into action in the West. Billions block out the sun in the Northern Great Plains. The plague of locusts eat everything in sight, and Most Native American Tribes stand in awe and fear at the biological catastrophe before them. A Mild winter does not slow them down. Even Tribes in the Great Lakes regions suffered from the swarm.

Despite this, the Missouri Indians have found it easier to farm up river. Their tribe grows and prospers.

In The Northwest, None describe the situation best than the Ninqually Tribe's tale of makadiwozìpineshìnjishag or The Black Birds:

The Black birds descended upon us from the ocean, and brought days of darkness. We could not breath. Our Children suffocated, they sun didn't show for days, and we thought we wouldn't see day again in the world.

Dust from China's expanding Gobi Desert was making it's way across the PAcific to North America.

Ethiopia, Sudan, and Chad are suddenly blessed with rain at this time. A bounty of food leads The Solomonic Dynasty to push it's boundaries West. Sayfa Arad leads numerous attempts to once steppe-desert, to conquer the peoples there.

The Inca are pulling through this sudden change. In Peru, The Inca try to counter the drought in Northern South America by bringing water from Chile North. Right from the Start, Logistical problems hindered the efforts, and The Inca uprooted themselves, and began a trek South in November 1347. Downstream in the Amazon, The Yanomami of the Amazon Rainforest are the first of the rainforest's people to be forced out of the rainforests by repeated forest fires and drought. The Amazon river was but a trickle at most points in the year. Like their Incan Bretheren, they begin a trek South.

The Aborigine Populations are relatively unnaffected, although Salties and Irukandji are appearing farther south, and an increase in forest fires causes an increase in grassland fauna.
 
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To Fast -Way to fast. My Years without Summer --TL took 200 years for the change, and I still feel I pushed it too fast.

The Plague toll had little to due with food supplies -- In fact a better harvest would probably help it spread faster.

1340's -- ?Isn't Russia still under the Golden Horde? [Mongols]
 
^ What he said. Way too fast.


In September 1939, Hitler held in a fart. By January 1940, the Nazis conquered the entire Old World. It rained really hard in Mongolia. By February 1941, the Mongolian population was 800 million and they conquered the whole Old World from the Nazis.

Okay, maybe it's not that ridiculous, but you get my point.



I like the premise of the TL, though.



EDIT: After your edit, it is excelente
 
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To Fast -Way to fast. My Years without Summer --TL took 200 years for the change, and I still feel I pushed it too fast.

I agree I really messed up with some things, but climate change even in the stone age could see 2 inches of sealevel rise a year, with temperatures also climbbing wildly.
 
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I agree I really messed up with some things, but climate change even in the stone age could see 2 inches of sea-level rise a year, with temperatures also climbing wildly.
What happens year by year is Weather. Climate is what happens over multiple Decades.
In The Americas, The Aztecs are falling once again to drought, but unlike the Mayan before them, the Aztecs move North into Nebraska, competing with the Apache and Tonkawa, eventually settling in Quetzocoatlitan (OTL Houston). Cities arise and raids begin on neighboring tribes.
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1340's
Increasing drought in Meso America has cause the Mayan cities to start collapsing, this increases the fighting with the Aztecs, Forcing them to start moving north. This will put pressure on the tribes north of the Aztecs.
Over the next decades this will bring the Civilized Tribes north into Texas and California.


you then have a update on them for your 1360's or 1380's showing how the Moving & fighting is causing a cultural exchange and blending.

Then several posts later your updates shows them settling back down

competing with the Apache and Tonkawa,
In the mid 1300's the Athabaskan Indians where still in northwestern Canada and eastern Alaska.
The increased moisture/warmth would allow the Missouri Farming Indians to expand north along/north of the River.
This would cut off the Athabaskan migration,
This will block the Athabaskan Indians and prevent the Apachu [Apaches] & Apaches de Nabahu, [the Apaches of the Cultivated Fields ie Navajoes] from ever existing.
 
A Warmer World part 2

A Warmer World,
Teil 2

1346 - As the English invade Calais during the Hundred Years War, a Horrible Storm Surge sweeps throught the English Channel, flooding London, The Low Countries, and the English Army entering through Calais are swept away to a horrible Death. Along with the English Army, approximately 4,000 people died.
France and England sign a truce once again, this time it ends the Hundred Years War.

Venice has it's worst flood in history. Aprox. 1,500 dead.

1356 - The Black Plague subsides in Europe.

1367 - Slightly Noticeable Sealevel rise has occurred.

In Florida, The Everglades are a yellow-brown smudge from space, poisoned by salt intrusion into the water table.The Semiole and Calusa are forced from The Everglades, pushing into Teyeetan and Bocan territory.

In Louisiana, Chawasha and Washa are pushed North into Chitimacha Territory.

Sayfa Arad's Military Campaign in Somalia proves a sucess, driving Muslims South into Kenya. The Ethiopian Kingdom now consists of Ethiopia, Parts of Sudan, and a good chunk of Somalia.

The Netherlands are partially submerged, and refugees are forced South into Lorraine. An Burgeoning population of refugees intially makes up for Black Death losses, but it results in a resurgence in the Duchy of Lorraine of The Bubonic Plague. It was easily conquered by France.

London is also flooded along with locales around the mouth of the Thames River. This increases land price as nobles, lords, and royalty flee for higher ground. This in turn creates overwhelming debt in England, often bankrupting landowners, and forcing them to sell their land to local wealthy lords.

Signifigant portions of Bangladesh are drowned, but unlike in modern times, there is still signifigant arable land for the Ilyas Shahi Dynasty's empire to grow crops. But unlike in OTL, There is a signifigantly lower Brahmaputra River outflow due to the drought in India. Sikander Shah begins plotting an invasion of Dehli to obtain greater lands. Meanwhile in Dehli, Firoz shah Tughlaq is brewing up a similar plan.

The Land of the Cardigal was not the one of their Ancestors. Gone were Eucalyptus forests, replaced by tall grasses. Fishing had become hazardous, with jellyfish and Estuarine Crocodiles prowling the waters. There were still Kangarooes and Tasmanian Wolves and Dingoes, though. There was ample food, and family. But there was never a time when you had to search upriver to find water.

The Aztec have reestablished themselves in Quetzocoatlan (OTL Houston). The First large Aztec temple rose on the West bank of the Brazos River in 1359, and since 1360 they have been at war with the Tonkowa. War Rape, Abduction, and mass murders are the primary component of these campaigns.

The Mayan on the other hand, are migrating all around. After crossing the Sacramento Desert, along with the extended San Francisco Bay which bisected the Valley, and the Cascades, they eventually settle at the base of Mt Shasta. It's annual winter flooding becomes the center of this new Mayan Empire. The Mayan begin showing The Shasta Tribe how to cultivate maize, and the Shasta show the Mayan how to hunt for food in the Mountain forests.
 
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Teil 3

A Warmer Wetter World
Part 3
1370 - Denmark is partially submerged. The Danish are pulled from Sweden to save their families.​

Sayfa Arad dies. His son, Newaya Maryam, leads the Ethiopians into Chad, are encounters a severly drained Lake Chad, naming it Lake Arad in honor of his father.​

1377 - Sikander Shah is sucessful at his invasion of Dehli, and Bangladesh gains aproximately 987 sq. miles of land.​

1387 - The Cardigal are now adapted the The new Australia. They have learned of the Fire's ability to boil water, which is coming in handy with the dirty water they are forced to drink.​
 
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BTW, it is a myth that medieval people only lived very short lives in that period. The averages are down because of high mortality in the younger years but it was not uncommon even for relatively poor people to live until 60. Maybe you meant averages were at 40 because of the plague? That's reasonable. But again, average is not really applicable to an individual. Most of the skeletons found from time indicate that they were only an inch or so shorter than modern people. The shrinking effect only happened years later.
 
Why does London, Denmark and Holland (already at that point of time,the Dutch were the most apt people do deal with the sea) drown- but Venice not yet?

Venice is basically IN the ocean.
 
Why does London, Denmark and Holland (already at that point of time,the Dutch were the most apt people do deal with the sea) drown- but Venice not yet?

Venice is basically IN the ocean.

Sinking wasn't as drastic as Today. But Yeah, it was a bit late. I shall edit that.
 
A Warmer Wetter World
Part 4​

1400 - The World 200 years after the begining of the Global Warming, the world has become a drastically different place.​

First off, Deltas have primarily disappeared. The Nile Delta is gone, and the Arabs who founded the city of Cairo are forced back to the lifestyle of their Bedouin ancestors, some relocating to the Ottoman Empire in Greece. Interestingly enough, as they went to Greece, they brought a passtime of theirs, cheetah racing, to the Great Hungarian Plains and the Black sea coast.​

The Sahara has jumped the Mediterranean. In Spain, Italy, Southern Greece, and Southern France, heatwave begin to ravage the countryside. Crops, people, forests, and entire Towns die in soaring 40-50 degree weather. Many of the fueding little states in Italy are collapsing under the strain of repeated outbreaks of Bubonic plague and the heatwaves.​

The Northern Ice Cap is gone for most of the year, only appearing as a 250 square mile block of sea ice. Polar Bears have become much more of a threat to the Inuit and Laplanders as they desperately search for seals, only to find boats full of humans also searching for seals and Whales. Grolar Bears are quickly becoming a common sight.​

The Alps now resembled the Atlas Mountains in Morroco. Austrian and Hungarians used to good pastures for their sheep now only find valleys of scree and cobble, with Winter floods and regular landslides. The turnover to goats is quick, and due to common catastrophe in the mountains, a loss in faith accompanies the goatherders in the mountains.​

The Lenape of New York and Pennsylvania are coming into contact with the ocean on greater occaision. Beachcombing becomes more important to them because saltwater infiltrates the Delaware and Hudson Rivers and riparian forests in these areas begin dying. The Lenape begin to expand in all directions, pushed West by the rising ocean, and North and South for the sake of fresh land to hunt in and grow crops. They come into contact with the Powhattan tribes in Virginia, absorbing the small tribes into Lenni Lenape culture.​

The Anasazi have fallen to drought, but unlike in OTL, the Aztec Cities popping up in Southern Texas and North Coastal Mexico in the East, and a Desert stretching from Mount Shasta to the Very tip of the Baja Peninsula in the West, the Anasazi move North, intermingling with the Comanche and Kiowa. The Anasazi are quickly assimilated into either tribe when they raid the Anasazi in 1390. Both are gaining cultural knowledge of permanent settlements from the Anasazi Pueblo. Seperately, branches of the Kiowa and Comanche come to form the Kukaintsitshachtzeh named for their use of the mud from the Canadian River to build Pueblo-type homes.​

The Swedish are doing perfectly well. A Mediteranean climate has drastically changed crop yields, with more children surviving infancy. Of course, though, a resurgence in the human population also brings back the Bubonic Plague.
Then in 1399, the Mongols re-trample through Europe fed by a surplus in horses, for both travel, war, and food. By 1400, they have reached Eastern Poland, and are pecking away at Scandinavia.​

The Aborigines of Australia have finally encountered a major climate-based threat: The El Nino.
No snow replenishing the melted ice caps in the Great Dividing range have left East Australia looking like The Outback; Arid and treeless with little drinkable water. Many begin moving South towards what is now Adelaide.

Dingoes are becoming rare much farther North than the Australian Alps, while Marsupials have reclaimed the rest of Australia.
Saltwater Crocodiles, Box Jellyfish, and Irukandji, the biotic threats in Australia's waters now encompass the Mainland, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Salties entering New Zealand make a small but signifigant dent in the Moa populations near the coast, in turn creating a lack of food for the Haast's Eagle.

The Haast Eagle, however, has found a way to fly across the Sea to Tasmania, due to more convection currents occurring over the ocean. They stumble upon a world of easy pickings in Tasmania. They don't know what a human or Kangaroo is, but they know what meat tastes like.

The Tasmanians, though, are not keen on being the new foodstock for a random predator that came sweeping off the sea from distant lands...
 
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The Seminole and Calusa are forced from The Everglades,
I Thought the Seminoles were part of the 5 civilized Tribes in Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and that were pushed/fled into the Glades after losing the Southern Indian Wars [1810~1840].
The Indians in Florida pre Spanish Enslavement/Kill-Off were very different tribes.
The Sahara has jumped the Mediterranean. In Spain, Italy, Southern Greece, and Southern France, heatwave begin to ravage the countryside. Crops, people, forests, and entire Towns die in soaring 40-50 degree weather.
This is not how Global warming works.
The Deserts [Sahara, Gobi, Mohave] are caused by the sinking of air that rose in the Equatorial region, lost it's Moisture/Heat forming the Tropics, then falls forming the 30o Desert Zone.
Given your warmer climate whe will have a increase in the Tropics/Rain-forests, and maybe a slight expansion [1~200 miles N] in the Sahel.
But the 30o zone is due to the Size/Speed of Rotation and iany shift N will be limited to 1~2 degrees. Max.
The increase in the Monsoons Will replenish the Sahara Ground water increasing the number/Size of the Oasis's, and help refill Lake Chad.
Crops, people, forests, and entire Towns die in soaring 40-50 degree weather
?Die from the cold? :rolleyes:10~20o above freezing?:rolleyes: I'm guessing you mean Celsius.
As I said that is not how global warming works, what whe get is a 2o tropics ~5o in the temperate region and a 10~12 in the Arctics.
Whe also get a shorter winter and longer summers. instead of Memorial-Labor day, summer is, May Day-Halloween, and then Valentines Day - Thanksgiving
 
I Thought the Seminoles were part of the 5 civilized Tribes in Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and that were pushed/fled into the Glades after losing the Southern Indian Wars [1810~1840].
The Indians in Florida pre Spanish Enslavement/Kill-Off were very different tribes.
This is not how Global warming works.
The Deserts [Sahara, Gobi, Mohave] are caused by the sinking of air that rose in the Equatorial region, lost it's Moisture/Heat forming the Tropics, then falls forming the 30o Desert Zone.
Given your warmer climate whe will have a increase in the Tropics/Rain-forests, and maybe a slight expansion [1~200 miles N] in the Sahel.
But the 30o zone is due to the Size/Speed of Rotation and iany shift N will be limited to 1~2 degrees. Max.
The increase in the Monsoons Will replenish the Sahara Ground water increasing the number/Size of the Oasis's, and help refill Lake Chad. ?Die from the cold? :rolleyes:10~20o above freezing?:rolleyes: I'm guessing you mean Celsius.
As I said that is not how global warming works, what whe get is a 2o tropics ~5o in the temperate region and a 10~12 in the Arctics.
Whe also get a shorter winter and longer summers. instead of Memorial-Labor day, summer is, May Day-Halloween, and then Valentines Day - Thanksgiving

I shall fix that immediately.

Oddly enough, I thought you'd be a bit more angered by the almost fanciful step I took by introducing Haast's Eagles to Tasmania and Grolar Pears to Canada.
Or for that matter the Lenape-wank
 
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A Warmer Wetter World

Part 4​

1400 - The World 200 years after the begining of the Global Warming, the world has become a drastically different place.​

First off, Deltas have primarily disappeared. The Nile Delta is gone, and the Arabs who founded the city of Cairo are forced back to the lifestyle of their Bedouin ancestors, some relocating to the Ottoman Empire in Greece. Interestingly enough, as they went to Greece, they brought a passtime of theirs, cheetah racing, to the Great Hungarian Plains and the Black sea coast.​

Sahel conditions have jumped the Mediterranean. In Spain, Italy, Southern Greece, and Southern France, temperatures are like that of modern Tunisia or Gilbraltar. Many of the fueding little states in Italy are collapsing under the strain of repeated outbreaks of Bubonic plague and unseasonable temperature.​

The Northern Ice Cap is gone for most of the year, only appearing as a 250 square mile block of sea ice. Polar Bears have become much more of a threat to the Inuit and Laplanders as they desperately search for seals, only to find boats full of humans also searching for seals and Whales. Grolar Bears are quickly becoming a common sight.​

The Alps now resembled the Atlas Mountains in Morroco. Austrian and Hungarians used to good pastures for their sheep now only find valleys of scree and cobble, with Winter floods and regular landslides. The turnover to goats is quick, and due to common catastrophe in the mountains, a loss in faith accompanies the goatherders in the mountains.​

The Lenape of New York and Pennsylvania are coming into contact with the ocean on greater occaision. Beachcombing becomes more important to them because saltwater infiltrates the Delaware and Hudson Rivers and riparian forests in these areas begin dying. The Lenape begin to expand in all directions, pushed West by the rising ocean, and North and South for the sake of fresh land to hunt in and grow crops. They come into contact with the Powhattan tribes in Virginia, absorbing the small tribes into Lenni Lenape culture.​

The Anasazi have fallen to drought, but unlike in OTL, the Aztec Cities popping up in Southern Texas and North Coastal Mexico in the East, and a Desert stretching from Mount Shasta to the Very tip of the Baja Peninsula in the West, the Anasazi move North, intermingling with the Comanche and Kiowa. The Anasazi are quickly assimilated into either tribe when they raid the Anasazi in 1390. Both are gaining cultural knowledge of permanent settlements from the Anasazi Pueblo. Seperately, branches of the Kiowa and Comanche come to form the Kukaintsitshachtzeh named for their use of the mud from the Canadian River to build Pueblo-type homes.​

The Swedish are doing perfectly well. A Mediteranean climate has drastically changed crop yields, with more children surviving infancy. Of course, though, a resurgence in the human population also brings back the Bubonic Plague.
Then in 1399, the Mongols re-trample through Europe fed by a surplus in horses, for both travel, war, and food. By 1400, they have reached Eastern Poland, and are pecking away at Scandinavia.​

The Aborigines of Australia have finally encountered a major climate-based threat: The El Nino.
No snow replenishing the melted ice caps in the Great Dividing range have left East Australia looking like The Outback; Arid and treeless with little drinkable water. Many begin moving South towards what is now Adelaide.

Dingoes are becoming rare much farther North than the Australian Alps, while Marsupials have reclaimed the rest of Australia.
Saltwater Crocodiles, Box Jellyfish, and Irukandji, the biotic threats in Australia's waters now encompass the Mainland, Tasmania, and New Zealand. Salties entering New Zealand make a small but signifigant dent in the Moa populations near the coast, in turn creating a lack of food for the Haast's Eagle.

The Haast Eagle, however, has found a way to fly across the Sea to Tasmania, due to more convection currents occurring over the ocean. They stumble upon a world of easy pickings in Tasmania. They don't know what a human or Kangaroo is, but they know what meat tastes like.

The Tasmanians, though, are not keen on being the new foodstock for a random predator that came sweeping off the sea from distant lands...

(Edit for DuQuense)
 
Part Four
1401 – The Yanomami have adapted to the conditions presented by their new home of the Pantanal. The Pantanal however is much different than the one of OTL; It is a series of lakes scattered among several depressions in the Earth, which seasonally becomes a handful of massive lakes with scattered hilltops.

The have wiped out the numerous other tribes in the area. Initially, the Yanomami could comb for edible animals close to shore, and feasted upon local herbs. Water was clear, and communities never ran out of food. Paradise? No.

The Yanomami had repeated the mistake of the Harrapan and Manhattan-dwellers. Both human waste and human corpses were tossed into the water. When the Harrapan did it, cholera came out of it, now with the Yanomami, it was rogue Shigella. In 1401, a rogue Shigella strain struck the Yanomami communities in the Pantanal, also causing a local die-off of susceptible animals.

The Incan Empire or rather, people formerly in the Incan Empire have finally found a home in the mild climate of Southern Chile and Argentina. The El-Nino has a less dramatic impact down here, and they return to farming, and raising Guinea pigs and Llama.

Many are also planting crops in the Wetter Pampas. This however, meant they had to figure out a new way of farming.

Numerous newly formed rivers made from floodwaters in the Andes cut through the landscape. The Incan Farmers dig out a pit in the ground close to the river, and then make a channel from the river to the plot. Potatoes they brought seem to be growing better in the conditions, providing a base for a population growth.

They are now rubbing shoulders with the Mapuche, who see these farmers taking riparian land for farming as sacrilegious. Farmers seen too close to a Mapuche Settlement are killed, and for good reason too. Many water and Mosquito borne diseases are appearing in the Pampas Incans, as well as typhus, brought by the Incan themselves.

Mosquitoes and other vectors of disease are making haste towards the Poles. One can get Malaria in Moscow or Warsaw, Dengue fever in Bejing, and Schistosomiasis in South Africa.

Tsetse Flies can now be tracked as far north as Jutland. They bring not only sleeping sickness, which renders Europe an economic pit of despair, but also cause horses in Europe to dwindle. They devastate The Mongol Hordes in Russia and East Europe. Leipzig is only just saved from the assault, and many in the village claim it as a miracle.

Italy, as a result of the rising death tolls from disease, famine, and heat, communities are even more centralized. Rome is for the most part abandoned, although the Vatican City is packed with desperate Italians hoping for a chance in heaven. Pope Boniface IX is the commander of the walled off city. Many other communities are in such a position. The Militia and Armies of the numerous states had taken weapons, and dispersed into the countryside, raiding villages for sustenance and pleasure. Spain and Portugal are in a similar situation, with violence between the Jewish Spaniards and their Christian brethren heightening.

The Ottoman Empire was now centralized in Southeast Europe, in OTL’s Greece. Their New Empire compromises of Asia Minor, The Balkan Peninsula, and the North Coast of the Black Sea. They’re suffering the same woes as the rest of Europe, and the Sultan has been having a hard time managing the Empire’s problems. The Cheetahs they introduced are flourishing in the Great Hungarian plains, but are often killing livestock. Drought is rendering Turkey and Greece similar to the Arabian Peninsula, wrecking havoc with agricultural production.

Emperor Hongwu’s Ideas of Self-sufficient farm communities also faltered as China was hit simultaneously by drought in the North and floods in the South. The Ming dynasty in OTL decided to annex lands southwest that had been part of the Kingdom of Dali. Instead, focus is turned northward to the sparsely inhabited areas north of the Sungari River. By 1401, there are several military posts north of the Sungari River, including 北宋鳥or Seysungyo, a fort on the Upper reaches of the Kolyma River.

Easter Island had Ecological problems since humans set foot on its shores. The El-Nino has only made conditions worse on Rapa-nui. There are no fish to be found to replace the depleted forests, and the caves they return to are often wet and dank. Wars and Cannibalism have now left the Island uninhabited. Those who survived head east in hopes of a better future, but most die of starvation out at sea. The rest die near Chile in a bad storm.

In the Biological world, animals are either on the move or dead. Grolar Bears are now as populous as the Polar bears that birthed them. They played a hand in the extinction of Inuit population in Baffin Bay. Jaguars are now venturing as far north as Oregon in some cases. The Mayan legends of old tell of the Jaguar, and the Shasta are worshipping them alongside the Mayan.

Waterfowl are not as affected as they are in OTL by current global warming. Sandhill Cranes, Whooping Cranes, and White storks now live in reconstituted swamps circling the Hudson Bay. Armadillos, Alligators, and Coyote are found as far North as Philadelphia. The Lenni Lenape begin catching Armadillos for food, even cultivating them in Manhattan.

Saltwater Crocodiles have been turning up in Pakistan, South Island of New Zealand, and Taiwan, attacking anything they find to eat. Haast’s Eagles and The Tasmanian Aborigines have reached a stalemate, each taking victims from the other side constantly.
Reports of Irukandji Syndrome came from Japan, and Jellyfish are becoming a usual sight on beaches worldwide.

Livestock and crops are changing like wildfire. In Southern North America, many of the Indians growing maize found yields were steadily dropping. A turnover to other plants, likely something similar to Quinoa or Amaranth was inevitable.

In Europe, Cattle and sheep, being the most vulnerable to the heat and drought are quickly dropped as a food source. Goats and Pigs, both being highly adaptable and generalist quickly become a common animal. The

Latter of the two helped accelerate desertification in Europe, in turn, pushing their herders into becoming nomads, searching for food. While Pigs are a staple meat in Britain and Scandinavia, Goats are the popular choice for farmers in Germany, France, and Poland, which creates a self-destructive cycle of goats wasting the grasslands that were so precious to the Countries.

In Africa, Many people have returned to a hunter-gatherer life style as heat and drought stretch resources thin. The Solomon Dynasty however, is flourishing. Ethiopia, Somalia, Chad, and Sudan, Four countries in OTL were often subject to drought. In ATL, however, a Stronger Monsoon, and reshuffling of currents send rains to the countries. Despite this, heat is causing a reshuffling in crop species, switching to grains and weedy crops like alfalfa and amaranth.
 
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A very interesting timeline. I had a look as the title seemed relatively optimistic with warmer weather. As a Brit, though, I should have known better. Warmer weather always means more dead people. But it's a very good premise.
I don't know much about climatology, but I still think that 150 years is a little too quick for such drastic desertification. I suppose that the climate change will reach a natural limit soon, or will there be some sort of positive feedback loop that will lead to an inevitably warming world?
 
Interesting initial idea but yeah, you went a bit too into soft asb pretty fast. Slow things down and get rid of some of the more epic happenings though an d it could work
 
As I've only studied El Nino half a year ago in geography, I would like to point out that the drought brought (rhymes! :p) by El Nino isn't uniform in every coast of the Pacific

The Western Pacific (Asia and Australia), do suffer drought during the period, causing rice paddies to dry up which leads to starvation.

The Eastern Pacific (Central and South America) on the other hand, gets torrential rain. Because the sea surface temperature and thus the air temperature of the west is far warmer, the air travels across the ocean into the east bring vapor from the ocean with it.

However, there is also the counterpart of El Nino, called La Nina

Here, the east gets the dry weather and crop failure, while the west, especially the Malay archipelago (Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines) gets tropical cyclones.

I don't really know how global warming effects this. After all it's Indonesian middle school material.

Keep up the good work and yeah slow down a little thou, I'm very enjoying this and I wouldn't mind if this TL takes a year or so to finish.
 
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