Superstorms, drastic climate change, and New York frozen in ice. This is how the Hollywood blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow" depicted the sudden cessation of Atlantic Ocean circulation and the catastrophic consequences.<\/p>\n
While Hollywood's vision was overblown, the 2004 film raised a serious question: If\u00a0<\/span>global warming<\/span>\u00a0stops the Atlantic meridian circulation, which is crucial for the transfer of heat from the tropics to the northern latitudes, how sudden and severe would the climate change be?<\/span><\/p>\n Twenty years after the film's release, we know much more about the circulation in the Atlantic Ocean. Instruments deployed in the ocean since 2004\u00a0<\/span>show that the circulation of the Atlantic Ocean<\/span> over the last two decades\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>noticeably slowed down<\/span>\u00a0, maybe on\u00a0<\/span>the weakest state in almost a millennium<\/span>\u00a0Studies also suggest that circulation reached its peak in the past.\u00a0<\/span>dangerous tipping point<\/span>\u00a0, which sent it into a sharp and unstoppable decline, and that it could hit this tipping point again as the planet warms and glaciers and ice sheets melt. (<\/em><\/span>by Ren\u00e9 van Westen, Henk A. Dijkstra and Michael Kliphuis The Conversation, more at phys.org<\/span><\/a>)<\/em><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Superstorms, violent climate change, and New York frozen in ice. That\u2019s how the Hollywood blockbuster \u201cThe Day After Tomorrow\u201d depicted the sudden cessation of Atlantic Ocean circulation and the catastrophic consequences. While Hollywood\u2019s vision was exaggerated, the 2004 film raised a serious question: If global warming shuts down the Atlantic meridian circulation, which is crucial for transferring heat from the tropics to the northern latitudes, [\u2026]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-klimaticka-zmena"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24800\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.co2news.sk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}