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Some Of The Science Behind The Ridiculous Movie 'The Day After Tomorrow' Is Now Coming True

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Some Of The Science Behind The Ridiculous Movie 'The Day After Tomorrow' Is Now Coming True

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"We detected a specific pattern of ocean cooling south of Greenland and unusual warming off the US coast - which is highly characteristic for a slowdown of the Atlantic overturning," explains Levke Caesar from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), co-author of a new paper that uses sea surface temperature measurements to confirm suspicions that the so-called Gulf Stream System is slowing down.

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"This weakening of the Atlantic's overturning began near the end of the Little Ice Age, a centuries-long cold period that lasted until about 1850," said Dr. Delia Oppo, a senior scientist with WHOI and co-author of the study.

Together, the two studies paint a picture of a weakened system that began to slow down around 150 years ago and really started to lose steam in recent decades as global temperatures rise.

The AMOC or Gulf Stream System is important as a key means of transporting heat around the globe, pushing warm water to the north and cold water to the south. This helps preserve the weather patterns life is built around.

The system is not on the brink of total collapse, as we see in The Day After Tomorrow, but the researchers do conclude that major ocean circulation has slowed down by about 15 percent since the middle of the 20th century.

"If we do not rapidly stop global warming, we must expect a further long-term slowdown of the Atlantic overturning," explains Alexander Robinson of the University of Madrid, who co-authored the PIK study. "We are only beginning to understand the consequences of this unprecedented process - but they might be disruptive."

Does this mean it's possible for North America to become essentially covered by glaciers in the span of a single weekend as Hollywood would have us believe?

Not likely, but a slowdown of the Gulf Stream System can make the consequences of sea-level rise for places like New York and Boston more dire. And a colder northern Atlantic paradoxically brings warmer air to Europe: in fact, a record European heat wave in 2015 has been linked to record cold Atlantic waters.

The scientific view of The Day After Tomorrow is still that it's absurd, but the latest science is also showing that the ideas and predictions underlying it were real, and they could soon make absurd-seeming weather extremes a little more commonplace.

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