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  This documentary is about the consequences of global warming on “The Great Atlantic Conveyor”, which has to do with regulating climate and the fear that the melting of ice will stop it, perhaps triggering an ice age.

  “In the battle against climate change there is no enemy to fight, just our attitudes.” (Nicolas Koutsikas, Director, The Gulf Stream and The Next Ice Age) Climate Change is hot on the political and social agenda internationally. Our climate is changing, with industrial production, habitat, transport and everyday human activities acknowledged as causes of global warming. The Gulf Stream and the Next Ice Age is a one-hour documentary which explores the results of a recent American government report that believes the collapse of thermohaline circulation will take place around the year 2010 and impose a minor ice age on Europe. Could Dublin acquire a climate like Spitzberg, and London like that of Siberia? The Gulf Stream is a powerful surface current, driven by the Trade Winds. Its origins lie in the Gulf of Mexico and it carries the tropical waters from the Florida Strait to the great banks of the United States, where it heads eastward, carrying its warm waters to the borders of the North Atlantic. As soon as the tropical waters hit the Arctic Ocean, they cool abruptly and plunge towards the abyssal zone to form a loop, known as “thermohaline circulation.” Then, like an immense conveyor belt that slows down in the ocean depths, it sets out again southward to rejoin the beginning of the Gulf Stream.

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  Published on January 8, 2010 · Filed under: Biology, Environment;

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2 Responses to “The Gulf Stream and The Next Ice Age”

1. Robbyou says:

   March 26, 2010 at 12:29 pm

   The world is flat, the earth is at the center of the universe, Humans are the main cause and reason for global warming. All claims which history will have corrected when we are gone

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2. CPT Wayne says:

   January 23, 2011 at 9:50 pm

   At Europe’s latitude, atmospheric heat transport exceeds that of the ocean by several fold during the summer months and maybe even ten fold in the winter. The atmosphere, not the ocean, keeps Europe warm in the winter. The explanation lies in conservation of angular momentum of air flows from west across the Rocky mountains which are forced south then north. Cold air is forced south into eastern north America and warm air north into western Europe. You can see this happening by looking at today’s satellite photos. The warmth stored in the summer ocean is released into the air and transported eastward into Europe.
   This is not the ocean transport from the Gulf stream, which adds very little warmth. In Europe today, the temperatures were in the 30s to 40s while eastern U.S. its in the 10s or 20s. See this article: Climate mythology: The Gulf Stream, European climate and Abrupt Change by
   Richard Seager, Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University

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