Lots of noise on blogs about climate change and the extreme weather but very little about the news of a possible collapse of the Gulf Stream in about 2 years.
Why?
I few days ago I wrote about the report that the Gulf Stream was fading and could be gone by 2025....that's right! We are talking about 2 years or so.
To remind you what was written....
There Is A Change A'Coming
If you more detail then this article may help....
https://www.livescience.com/planet-earth/climate-change/gulf-stream-current-could-collapse-in-2025-plunging-earth-into-climate-chaos-we-were-actually-bewildered
Now for the meat of this post....if and when the current collapses what can we expect?
But what happens when AMOC runs amok? A sudden influx of freshwater from Greenland will inevitably stop the salt water from sinking as it usually does, causing havoc in the cycle. People living in Europe and the U.S. are likely to experience extremely unpleasant changes to their environment in addition to enormous sea level rises that could submerge East Coast cities like New York and Boston. Those not sweating it out due to rising temperatures will live in a frozen hellscape and all of us will be battered by unpredictable weather.
While you may associate climate change with increased warming — this is only part of the terrifying tale. A sudden disruption of the Gulf Stream's helpful currents could cause a return to ice-age-like conditions in the world's already chilly North.
You may remember this effect occurring in the silly but entertaining disaster flick "The Day After Tomorrow," albeit in the film it happens way too quickly and in a sensationalized fashion. Still, sudden drastic changes could potentially happen quite quickly; when AMOC was last disrupted — during the last Ice Age — temperatures changed by 10 to 15 degrees in just 10 years (via CNN).
Europe is likely to be particularly severely affected because, in truth, the continent should be much colder than it is given its latitude. It is only the ocean currents that prevent Europe from being enveloped by icy cold conditions. The U.K., for example, is parallel with Northern Canada but doesn't get particularly cold. In the worst-case scenario, the sea ice that currently blankets the Arctic would become a common sight much further south. Speaking to Vice magazine, climate scientist Peter Ditlevsen remarked "We would probably get a climate in Western Europe more like the climate in Alaska." In the tropics, on the other hand, temperatures would continue to soar.
Read More: https://www.grunge.com/1350443/what-would-happen-to-earth-if-ocean-currents-collapsed/
Soirée to be a bummer but it is best you see for yourself and not depend on idiot politicians to try and make it sound less threatening than it is.
Hide your heads if you will but that solves nothing is just it easier for you to show your ass.
I do believe change is coming and you will have to deal with it whether you want to or not.
But hey....what do I know?
I Read, I Write, You Know
"lego ergo scribo"
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