Notes from an Environmentalist
Danish scientist calculates the Atlantic Ocean System will Collapse in 2057.
2057
“The Day After Tomorrow”
I’m sure the Irminger sea doesn’t keep you up at night but it probably should. The Irminger Sea is where meltwater flowing off the Greenland glacier makes the sea’s surface waters less salty. This is concerning because it dilutes the hot salty waters flowing north on the Gulf Stream.
Normally the Gulf Stream waters would evaporate near the Irminger Sea making them saltier and heavier so they would plunge as an invisible waterfall two miles deep to the ocean floor.
There they would flow south toward the equator, warm and rise again to become the Gulf Stream, the top half what is called the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC, which acts like an escalator pulling the Gulf Stream north and pushing the bottom currents south.
But the Irminger Sea mucks things up by adding fresh water to the system so the surface waters don’t plunge and the Gulf Stream don’t flow.
When the AMOC collapses it will be a major tipping point plunging Europe into longer crop destroying winters, starving Africa, causing more severe storms and eventually raising sea levels as much as 21 feet.
When will all this happen? Publishing in the journal Nature Communications the Danish statistician Peter Ditlersen audaciously predicted 2057 in what has become the most cited paper of the year for the journal.
No wonder, it raised eyebrows, everybody knows someone that will be alive in thirty-three short years.