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The Day After Tomorrow
Index of scientific documentation for the scenario
painted in the Hollywood blockbuster film in which a sudden ice age is caused
by the thermohaline current coming to a halt due to the infusion of fresh
water from melting ice.
See also: Global
Warming
Overviews
- Movies > Day
After Tomorrow - Presents a compelling scientific model of
an ice age coming cataclysmically as a result of global warming
melting the polar caps at to fast a rate, creating an imbalance in the
fresh/salt water, creating a sudden shift a primary ocean
current. This is one you ought to own.
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Maxing
Earth's Buffers to the Breaking Point - The Earth is extremely
resilient, but there are limits to how much she can take, and when her
buffering capacity is saturated, catastrophic ecosystem breakdown results.
We are beginning to see some more rapid changes now, indicating that we
are on the edge of the buffer. (PESN; Dec. 4, 2005) |
Data
- Arctic
water flow speeding up - One
of Siberia's largest rivers is dumping about 10% more fresh water into
the Arctic today than it was some 60 years ago. The
result is in line with predictions of how climate change is expected
to alter the Arctic water cycle, and is a worrying sign in terms of
maintaining important ocean currents. (Nature; Apr. 6,
2006)
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- The
Atlantic heat conveyor slows - A new hydrographic section across
25° N was taken in 2004, and comparison with measurements from 1957, 1981,
1992 and 1998 reveals a slowing of almost a third between 1957 and 2004. (Nature;
Dec. 1, 2005)
- Fine-Tuning
the Steps in the Intricate Climate Change Dance - New scientific
findings are strengthening the case that the oceans and climate are linked
in an intricate dance, and that rapid climate change may be related to how
vigorously ocean currents move heat between low and high latitudes. (American
Geophysical Union; Dec. 8, 2005)
- Failing
Ocean Current Raises Fears of Mini Ice Age - If the 30 percent
slowdown seen over the past 12 years is not just a blip, temperatures in
northern Europe could drop significantly, despite global warming. (Planet
Ark; Dec. 1, 2005)
- The
Ocean to change the Earth's climate [Video]
- One of the most powerful ocean currents in
the world is weakening. Since a recent study came out with this new finding,
we talked to the UK's National Oceanography Centre to find out just how much
danger we're in... (Discovery.ca; Dec. 2, 2005) [doesn't account for
sudden freezing of Mammoths, etc.]
- Researchers
link ice-age climate-change records to ocean salinity - Sudden
decreases in temperature over Greenland and tropical rainfall patterns
during the last Ice Age have been linked for the first time to rapid
changes in the salinity of the north Atlantic Ocean, according to
research published in Nature, providing further evidence that
ocean circulation and chemistry respond to changes in climate. (PhysOrg;
Oct. 4, 2006)
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- Global
warming 55 million years ago shifted ocean currents - An
extraordinary burst of global warming that occurred around 55 million
years ago dramatically reversed Earth's pattern of ocean currents, a
finding that strengthens modern-day concern about climate change, a
study in Nature
[Jan.5] says. (PhysOrg; Jan. 4, 2006)
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- Ancient
Sediments Show Influence of Southern Ocean Circulation on Climate -
About 34 million years ago, the Earth's climate transitioned from a
"greenhouse climate" to the "icehouse climate" of today,
forming a massive ice sheet on the Antarctic continent. A new study by Linda
Anderson, an ocean sciences researcher at the University of California,
Santa Cruz, suggests that oceanographic features in the Southern Ocean--the
intensity of current flow and the amount of stratification (the formation of
distinct layers at different depths)--may have played a key role in the
transition. (PhysOrg; Dec. 5, 2005)
- Abrupt
Climate Change - Winter temperatures plummeting six degrees Celsius
and sudden droughts scorching farmland around the globe are not just the
stuff of scary movies. Such striking climate jumps have happened
before--sometimes within a matter of years. (Scientific American;
Nov. 2004)
- Global
Warming Could Trigger Ice Age - British scientists have analyzed
climate patterns at the end of the last Ice Age and believe that as the
southern regions of the world heat up, northern parts could grow colder. (Scotsman;
June 22, 2005)
- How
Global Warming Can Lead To A Big Chill - Scientists publish evidence
to support a popular theory that rising temperatures caused a big melt of
polar ice 8,200 years ago, causing a freshwater flood into the salty North
Atlantic. (Reuters; Dec. 3, 2004) (Torbjorn Tornqvist, Geophysical
Research Letters; Dec. 11, 2004)
- Martian
pole reveals ice age cycles
- Climate record seen in Red Planet's exposed ice cliffs. (Nature; 24
February 2005)
- How
Much Excess Fresh Water Was Added to the North Atlantic in Recent Decades?
- Large regions of the North Atlantic Ocean have been growing fresher since
the late 1960s as melting glaciers and increased precipitation, both
associated with greenhouse warming, have enhanced continental runoff into
the Arctic and sub-Arctic seas. (NewsWise; June 16, 2005)
Combat
- Thousands
of Barges Could Save Europe from Deep Freeze - Dr. Peter Flynn
of the University of Alberta proposes sending more than 8,000 barges
into the northern ocean in the fall and pumping a spray of water into
the air, and then, once the ice is formed, pumping ocean water on top
of it, trapping the salt in the ice and reaching a thickness of seven
meters... (NewsWise; Feb. 6, 2006) (See Slashdot
discussion)
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Related
- Movies > Category
6: Day of Destruction - A trio of massive storms fomented
by climate change collide creating a monster storm that is compounded
by a cascading failure grid power system. A must-see whistleblower
feature film that you'll want to own. (2:54; CBS / Hallmark
Entertainment TV miniseries; 2004) (Netflix)
(Amazon)
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See also
Page created by Sterling
D. Allan Dec. 5, 2005
Last updated October 05, 2006
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