The film depicts fictional catastrophic climatic effects in a series of extreme weather events that usher in global cooling and leads to a new ice age. This causes a chain reaction where warm water stops flowing from the Caribbean to the north Atlantic, triggering a huge disruption in the climate – something that IPCC scientists now say is a distinct possibility.
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A crumple in our weather conditions solution following the in the video The Day After Tomorrow would likely consider 40 existence in to regain from and would certainly total stand still global climate warming for 20 ages.
Recently climate scientist warned the currents in the North Atlantic appear to be slowing down at a rate never seen before, possibly due to cold fresh water from the melting Greenland ice cap.
Sybren Drijfhout, a professor at the University of Southampton, said that a collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC) could occur as a result of the continued warming of the Earth.
Using the German climate model ECHAM at the Max-Planck Institute in Hamburg, Professor Sybren Drijfhout from Ocean and Earth Science at the University of Southampton found that, for a period of 20 years, the earth will cool instead of warm if global warming and a collapse of the AMOC occur simultaneously. Consequently, global warming will continue to happen with a mean temperature offset of about 0.8 degree C.
By the time these climate events finished, the Earth was under global cooling & a number of people were just left to live in this new ice age.
Interestingly, the effect of atmospheric cooling due to an AMOC collapse is associated with heat flow from the atmosphere into the ocean, which has been witnessed during the climate hiatus of the last 15 years.
He said that this heat flow will get reversed when the planet cools because of a reduction in volcanic eruptions or greenhouse gas emissions. He said that a similar energy flow reversal is also observed at the top of our atmosphere.
To the contrary, the study claims that the recent warming period is one which simply can not be attributed to a single cause.
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The researcher added that these diverse fingerprints in the flow of energy between internal ocean circulation procedures and atmospheric radiative forcing allowed us to locate a suitable cause for a climate hiatus. Due to the El Niño phenomenon along wth significant changes in the Southern Ocean in the Antarctic region, ocean temperatures and levels are constantly shifting and increasing.
