How would a gravity disruption affect the world when ground zero is Antarctica?
Going off of this question, What would happen to the Earth if Gravity disappeared?, if an area of 1,000,000 cubic miles (as in, at the epicenter the area of effect will reach into the earth 50 miles, and into the air 50 miles, and spread on the ground 50 miles in each cardinal direction), with the epicenter at the south pole, lost it's gravity for even a few seconds there would be a massive explosion that would rip out the matter in the Earth and send it into the air as well as cycle huge amounts of air that would significantly disrupt the local weather.
My question is, what would the lasting effects be (assuming the gravity disruption no longer existed after a few seconds to a few minutes)? How would this affect the global climate? Would it accelerate global warming? What would happen to not only the oceans around Antarctica but the oceans around the world? Would it even impact them at all?
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The biggest thing would be the storms caused by extreme low pressures.
First off, because of the depressurization the temperature is going to drop way down. This would be cold even for Antarctica, where -49°C is the average. Because all the air going up and out, a lot of air is going to be pulled in from up north (which is everywhere, when you're at the south pole).
Warmer air with lots of moisture. It would lead to a super storm, which would cause issues in a lot of the southern hemisphere, and probably weird weather in general all over...
How bad it all would be depends on how long the gravity was off and a lot of other factors, which I don't really have the math for.
Weather is weird.
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