Gulf Stream
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Scientists from Cambridge University have confirmed that the
Gulf Stream is weakening, and this is likely to bring much
colder temperatures to Europe within a few years. The
weakening is significant: the Gulf Stream is flowing at a
quarter of the strength that was present five years ago.
This is happening because gigantic chimneys of cold water
that were sinking from the surface to the sea bed off
Greenland have disappeared. These chimneys are the key
engine of world climate as we know it today, and their
disappearance signals the beginning of a great catastrophe.
There will be a special report about this important story on
this week's
Dreamland!
This is the first research to show unequivocal evidence of
the phenomenon, which was originally predicted in the Coming
Global Superstorm, published in 1999.
In Superstorm and in the film based on it, the Day After
Tomorrow, the event unfolds over the course of a week. The
Cambridge scientists are predicting now that there will be
clear water at the North Pole as early as 2020, and that
temperatures in Britain are likely to drop by 5-8 degrees
Celsius, from an average of 22 at present to 14 to 17 in the
future. An average as low as 17 (62 Fahrenheit) will mean
that the summer growing season will be catastrophically
curtailed in Europe, leading to huge declines in production
from one of the world's primary surplus production zones.
It will also mean that winters similar to those in Finland
will extend far south into France, and that there is a
possibility that a series of "no-melt" summers across the
northern latitudes could cause the reflectivity of the
planet to increase to the point that new glaciation will begin.
The weakening of the Gulf Stream is destabilizing currents
worldwide, and will lead to radical climate changes in other
areas. The nature of these changes is not known, and the
current US administration has blocked US environmental
agencies from studying the phenomenon, so the severity of
its effect in this country is not under study. However, it
is likely that the eastern US and eastern Canada will
experience climate change as radical as that in Europe, as
the Gulf Stream drops south. At the least, food production
and liveability in the eastern half of North America will be
severely challenged.
Scientists are currently assuming that the Gulf Stream will
slow and stop over a period of years, not suddenly, as
predicted in Superstorm and portrayed in the Day After Tomorrow.
However, there is ample evidence that sudden and extreme
changes have taken place worldwide in the past.
Unknowncountry.com reported on this phenomenon in
December of
2004 and earlier in
November of 2003.
There is a mechanism that changes a process of climate
change that seems to be unfolding over a period of years
into a violent event that takes just hours or days to
develop, and then remains in a radically changed condition.
This happened 5,200 years ago, as has amply been revealed in
the fossil record.
Why it happened remains unknown, but it certainly had to do
with the very sort of spiking of temperatures that the world
has experienced over the past fifty years, and a reversal.
The changes that are taking place in the Gulf Stream are
unstoppable. They will unfold. How that will happen, and
whether or not the process will involve sudden and violent
worldwide storms such as those that took place 5,200 years
ago remains unknown.
It is, however, essential that planning for the change begin
at once. At the least, the world faces dramatic economic
upheavals and a decline in food production at a time when
both energy and food needs are at the highest they have ever
been in history.
So far, the only other media outlet that has picked up this
story is the Sunday Times of Great Britain, and they have
not provided the true perspective, or discussed the scale of
the changes that are on their way. For the Times story,
click
here.
We need to concentrate on cleaning up our problems here on
Earth so future generations can inherit a world worth living
in, before
The Day
After Tomorrow arrives. Read the novella based on the hit
movie!
