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Friday, April 13th, 2018

Gulf Stream current at its weakest in 1,600 years, studies show

Author:     Damian Carrington
Source:     The Guardian (U.K.)
Publication Date:     Wed 11 Apr 2018 18.39 EDT
 Link: Gulf Stream current at its weakest in 1,600 years, studies show
Stephan:   This story describes a really huge deal. The Gulf Stream is a critical part of the earth's climate system and essential to making the British Isles livable. I have said over and over again, that there are two constants to climate: The timeline keeps collapsing, and the outcomes keep getting worse. And this is a really bad one. Human civilization is under threat and instead of preparing for and discussing the people of America have elected a mobster for president, and we spend our time talking about his renting the same room in Moscow as the Obamas, and bringing in prostitutes to piss on the bed; did he have an illegitimate child; and, how many adulterous relationships has Trump had, and how many people were paid off to keep them from talking about them. America has become the National Enquirer, and I find it disgusting. But more than that I find it ever more alarming that climate change is rapidly progressing and Trump's administration denies its existence.

Scene from The Day After Tomorrow showing the Statue of Liberty covered in ice. In the film a rapid shutdown of the Amoc current causes the temperatures to plummet overnight. In reality the change will be much slower, but still dramatic.
Credit: 20th Century Fox/Kobal/REX/Shutterstock

The warm Atlantic current linked to severe and abrupt changes in the climate in the past is now at its weakest in at least 1,600 years, new research shows. The findings, based on multiple lines of scientific evidence, throw into question previous predictions that a catastrophic collapse of the Gulf Stream would take centuries to occur.

Such a collapse would see western Europe suffer far more extreme winters, sea levels rise fast on the eastern seaboard of the US and would disrupt vital tropical rains. The new research shows the current is now 15% weaker than around 400AD, an exceptionally large deviation, and that human-caused global warming is responsible for at least a significant part of the weakening.

The current, known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (Amoc), carries warm water northwards […]

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1 Comment

  1. sam on Friday, April 13, 2018 at 8:16 am

    Various sources of science point to a rapid decline of the climate. Too fast for most societies to respond. The Weather Channel reports on the events with no apparent understanding of what they mean. Global famine in 2019.