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A recent study on the global warming's effects on the Atlantic current has got many worried about the reality of the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" is coming true soon.
The study which was published at the Nature Climate Change journal debates about the continuously melting of Greenland's ice sheets which is possibly causing the slowing down of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), or the Gulf Stream System.
Scientists explained that the proof that the slowing down is happening is due to the cooling trend of the North Atlantic region while the rest of the world continues to warm up.
Potsdam Institute's study lead author, Stefan Rahmstorf, disclosed that the outcome of a large reduction in ocean upturn will not be the same as in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow" but it will not be safe for everyone too. It will have a great effect on the sea level along the United States East coastline, the fisheries, the marine ecosystems, and the possibility of storms in the European areas, according to The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Scientists have been paying great attention to the AMOC, the ocean path where warm water from the tropics were carried to the Northern Atlantic, and the experts found that this Gulf Stream is starting to show abrupt fluctuations between getting weaker and stronger which resulted to drastic climate change regionally.
Rahmstorf explained that the Gulf System has weakened to its lowest in 1100 years as of today. This has to do with the inflow of fresh water from Greenland's melting ice sheets, Vox reported.
This study shows that the AMOC will continuously weakens in the decades to come. This will drastically affect the climate changes in every region, globally. Harsh winters in the European region and quick rising of the sea levels in the United States East Coast.
"The slowdown we see in the data is not what you see in the climate models," Rahmstorf explained. "If climate models have underestimated the decline, we might be closer to that threshold [where abrupt changes happen] than we thought," he added.
