Europe Will Freeze Over In The Next 50 Years: Scientists Sound The Alarm

Deep in the Atlantic Ocean flows an invisible river, more powerful than all the great terrestrial rivers combined. It's the so-called Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation - AMOC for short - which we can imagine as a gigantic heat conveyor belt that has regulated our planet's climate for millennia and made northern European lands habitable. But today - as we're about to see in this remarkable video - it seems this perfect mechanism is about to break, with consequences that could prove catastrophic beyond our wildest expectations.

The AMOC transports about 15 million cubic meters of water every second - a volume equivalent to about 70 rivers the size of the Amazon. To get an idea of its power: we're talking about 15 Sverdrups, where each Sverdrup equals one million cubic meters per second. It's such an immense amount of water that it would fill 6,000 Olympic swimming pools every second.
This colossal oceanic river, of which the famous Gulf Stream is just one branch, carries warm surface water from the tropics northward, all the way to the coasts of Norway and Greenland. A flow of thermal energy that creates a temperature difference of over 10°C between Western Europe and North American regions at the same latitude. Without this system, London would be much colder than Labrador, Oslo would be buried under meters of snow for most of the year, and Scandinavia would be an uninhabitable arctic desert.
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Credits: Ron Miller, Mark A. Garlick / MarkGarlick.com ,Elon Musk/SpaceX/ Flickr
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00:00 Intro

00:09 What is Amoc
What drives this perpetual motion?
3:15 The Coriolis Effect
4:00 upwelling
6:10 What "Amoc Collapse " means?
7:48 Simulations Also Confirm the Danger
10:38 The Cause of Possible Collapse
14:16 Technology comes to our aid
16:20 Lessons from the Past: The Younger Dryas
18.42 The Global Domino Effect
22:17 A Possible Collapse Timeline
24:26 The Costs of Catastroph
26:02 A Possible Conclusion

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