Saturday 29 November 2014

The Gulf Stream blocked

Don’t Look Now, but, – Cold Mystery Blob Blocking Gulf Stream



25 November, 2014


In the movie, “The Day After Tomorrow”, warm water from the Gulf Stream get’s shut off in a perverse impact of global warming, leading to worldwide catastrophe.
No in is predicting that – at all. But, there is this weird thing in the North Atlantic right now…

(you’ll have to fullscreen it to see the action)

Below, the 2004 movie “The Day After Tomorrow” took a North Atlantic shutdown as a trigger for global disaster. In this clip, they get a lot wrong, including the backwards circulation of the ocean currents – and science does not consider this scenario very probable any time soon. Still, a mystery unfolding.  A well known oceanographer writes me, “The current big blue blob has been there since mid-2013 if you look at the monthly GISS anomalies, but it is a much longer-term feature also shown in the AR4 and AR5 global temperature trend map.”

I’m told there is some probably-not-quite-so-dramatic science in the publication pipeline on this. 


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