. . . The earth will never be the same as it was before. ... ...
The Gulf Stream has stopped. Ice Age Coming Soon Dr. Gianluigi Zangari of the Frascati Institute, based on satellite data, found that the Gulf Stream, which provides a mild climate in Europe and stabilizes weather throughout the planet, has almost completely disappeared. The physicist sees the reason for this in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It was oil that destroyed the boundaries between the layers of warm and cold water, as a result of which the underwater currents slowed down, and in some places even stopped. Mankind does not know how to neutralize the consequences of the disaster. The use of dispersants at the scene of the accident only made it possible to conceal the extent of the harm caused. Part of the bay was cleared of oil slick, but it is impossible to remove oil from great depths. According to some experts, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues, which means that the likelihood of self-healing of the Gulf Stream is decreasing every day. The disappearance of the main warm current of the Earth, according to Gianluigi Zangari, has already led to weather anomalies this summer: floods in Europe and China, droughts in Russia and Asia. In the future, this threatens with mixing of seasons all over the planet, crop failure and massive migrations. But the worst thing is that a new ice age could begin at any time.
According to experts, the North Atlantic current of the Gulf Stream has stopped. The inhabitants of the Nordic countries may be the first to suffer, then global climate changes will affect the entire planet. Scientists believe that British Petroleum and the US authorities are responsible for the cataclysm, which allowed a colossal oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and resorted to drastic measures to solve the problem.
Ice Age is coming
Europe is a unique place. First, if we take the "hemisphere of the land" (what is it), then it turns out that Europe is in its very center. The French, in general, are not so wrong when they call their homeland the center of the earth.
Secondly, nature lovingly warms Europe with the warm Gulf Stream. Without which it would be very problematic to live in Europe, only at the level of the Chukchi and Eskimos ...
Take, for example, Petersburg, a city-in-a-swamp. The climate is rather disgusting, but in summer it can be hot, almost up to plus forty. The record for above-zero temperatures in Magadan, which is located at the same latitude as St. Petersburg ... plus twenty-six. Winters, on the other hand, are long and harsh in Magadan.
If you look in an average way, then in St. Petersburg freezing temperatures are kept from November to March. In Magadan - from October to April, two months longer.
Now let's go down to the south and look at two cities located about the fortieth parallel: Rome and Pyongyang. If in Rome in January the average temperature minimum is plus four degrees, then in Pyongyang… minus ten.
In short, thanks to the Gulf Stream, Europe is warm. And Europeans even like to scare themselves with various horrors on the topic "what will happen if the Gulf Stream stops." After all, the Gulf Stream stops regularly: every several thousand years.
So that's it. I am smoothly moving on to the main point. You and I were lucky to witness a historic event. Scientists have recorded the stop of the Gulf Stream. And this, unfortunately, is not a joke. The Gulf Stream is dead. British Petroleum Corporation killed the Gulf Stream.
I quote from Warandpeace.ru: “A new ice age awaits us. According to the latest satellite data, the North Atlantic current of the Gulf Stream no longer exists, and the Norwegian currents stopped with it ...
... All rivers of "warm water" that flows from the Caribbean to the edges of Western Europe are dying because of Corexit, which the Obama administration allowed BP to use to cover up the scale of the BP platform disaster. About 2 million gallons of Corexit, as well as several million gallons of other dispersants, were added to the more than 200 million gallons of crude oil that poured over several months from the BP well and nearby facilities, mainly on the ocean floor ...
... A new ice age is starting now. It will start with glaciation in North America, Europe and Asia, this winter ... "
In general, according to scientists, this winter Europeans will feel how it is, without the Gulf Stream.
The Gulf Stream has stopped. Ice Age is coming
The first to sound the alarm was Italian scientist Gianluigi Zangari, a physicist at the Frascati Institute (Rome) who has been monitoring the Gulf of Mexico for several years.
Dr. Zangari, based on satellite data, found that the Gulf Stream, which provides a mild climate in Europe and stabilizes the weather on the entire planet, has almost completely disappeared. The physicist sees the reason for this in the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. It was oil that destroyed the boundaries between the layers of warm and cold water, as a result of which the underwater currents slowed down, and in some places even stopped.
Mankind does not know how to neutralize the consequences of the disaster. The use of dispersants at the scene of the accident only made it possible to conceal the extent of the harm caused. Part of the bay was cleared of oil slick, but it is impossible to remove oil from great depths. According to some experts, the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico continues, which means that the likelihood of self-healing of the Gulf Stream is decreasing every day.
The disappearance of the main warm current of the Earth, according to Gianluigi Zangari, has already led to weather anomalies this summer: floods in Europe and China, droughts in Russia and Asia. In the future, this threatens with mixing of seasons all over the planet, crop failure and massive migrations. But the worst thing is that a new ice age has already begun.
Back in June, Zangari published a scientific article, which was based on data from satellites of the US Federal Oceanic and Atmospheric Observations Agency. Zangari argued that satellite data clearly indicated a fundamental change in the structure of the Gulf Stream - a kind of "river" of warm water that moves in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean from south to north and provides a relatively warm climate in northern Europe.
It is thanks to the Gulf Stream that the British Isles are not bound by ice, Scandinavia maintains a climate suitable for life, and tulips grow in Holland, although permafrost remains at the same latitude in Siberia.
The Gulf Stream carries warm water to the coast of Northern Europe
Zangari argued that "glaciation, the extent of which cannot yet be predicted, is inevitable."
Zangari's article caused a great resonance among scientists, but there was no confirmation of his data, since the operational data of satellite maps on the agency's server were later changed for unknown reasons.
In early August, Zangari announced that the official satellite data could no longer be considered reliable, and his findings about the threat of a halt in the Gulf Stream remained unchanged.
“There is no historical precedent for such changes in natural systems after human intervention. The only exception can be considered only the consequences of nuclear weapons tests and the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986 ”,
Gianluigi Zangari, physicist at the Frascati Institute (Rome)
Zangari claims that the disaster in the Gulf of Mexico is the cause of the cataclysm. A huge amount of oil, constantly expanding in volume, covers such large areas in the ocean that it disrupts the thermoregulation system, destroying the boundary layers of the warm water flow.
According to Zangari, satellite data have clearly shown that there is no longer a single Gulf Stream. The North Atlantic Current split into parts.
Previously, streams of warm water passing through cooler layers of the ocean influenced not only the overall temperature of the ocean, but also the upper atmosphere - up to 10 km.
Since now the warm current has turned out to be disturbed, the normal currents of atmospheric flows have also been disturbed. Because of this, the atmospheric front in the eastern part of the North Atlantic changed, and, as a result, this summer there were droughts and floods in Central Europe, extremely high temperatures in Eastern Europe and many Asian countries, and floods in China.
“There is no historical precedent for such changes in natural systems after human intervention,” says Zangari. “The only exception can be considered the consequences of nuclear weapons tests and the Chernobyl disaster in April 1986”.
According to the scientist, having discovered the "oil volcano" in the Gulf of Mexico on April 10 this year, people "killed the pacemaker of the global climate on the planet." The main weapons of murder were oil gushing from the ocean floor and the substance Corexit, which the oil company British Petroleum (BP) used to solve the problem of pollution in the Gulf of Mexico.
Poison for "salvation"
Corexit dispersant was first used in 1989 to clean up the aftermath of the Exxon Valdez tanker crash, when 260,000 tons of oil spilled into the ocean.
It is a powerful solvent manufactured by Nalco Holding Company, a company affiliated with BP and Exxon. The formula of this substance used to dissolve oil spills in water and its characteristics are strictly classified, but some experts believe that it is four times more toxic to living things than oil itself.
More than 1 million gallons of Corexit (almost 3.7 million liters) have been used in the Gulf of Mexico, according to official figures. At the same time, some environmentalists consider this figure to be underestimated.
Corexit has been banned in England and several European countries, but the US authorities did not object when BP announced that it was using the toxic substance to sediment an oil spill that threatened to turn the coast of several US states into habitable places.
Zangari claims that the millions of barrels of oil that entered the ocean through the BP hole and the Corexit used to sediment the oil slick together disrupted the Gulf Stream.
Oil and chemicals altered the temperature, viscosity, and salinity of the water in the Gulf of Mexico and stopped currents that have existed for millions of years.
Satellite data shows a rip occurred during the Gulf Stream
In contrast, General Ted Allen, head of the National Emergency Service, is trying to reassure Americans that the worst is over. That the oil spills disappeared by themselves, thanks to natural processes. Only here the data from the satellites indicate otherwise.
Millions of gallons of Corexit have allowed the US and BP to calm public opinion a little. The logic was simple - if the oil spills disappear, there will be no crisis. But to remove oil from the surface and mix it with the water column is not a PR issue. This is a tragic mistake.
It's easy to imagine what exactly happened to the Gulf Stream. As a matter of fact, the same thing will happen with the sublimated oil and vinegar, if you mix them, say, for salad dressing. Put a bottle with such a "potion" on the shelf for a while and the liquids will separate from one another by themselves. Simply because they have different densities.
But if you shake them well, then a substance with a completely different density is formed and it will flow much more slowly. Something similar happened in the Gulf of Mexico.
Day after tomorrow?
Once the Gulf Stream has already stopped. In 2004, in the American blockbuster "The Day After Tomorrow", as a result of which the temperature in New York plummeted to a lethal level for humans. "The Gulf Stream system is changing in unpredictable ways, which can lead to serious consequences on a planetary scale." The film was based on real scientific research, and its authors showed how important the Gulf Stream is for the Earth's climate. After all, the current carries warm water from the equatorial latitudes, along the East coast of America, across the Atlantic to the north of Europe.
The truth is now the water is not so warm. Now the temperature of the Gulf Stream is 10 degrees lower than it was at the same time last year. Scientists see this as a direct relationship between stopping the flow and falling water temperature. However, they are in no hurry to predict further developments. In their opinion, it is simply useless. Simply because "this phenomenon is unpredictable," says Gianluigi Zangari, a physicist at the Frascati Institute (Rome).
But the question, “what new, as a result, awaits us in the future?” Will still have to be asked. So far, Zangari has only one answer to this: "the Gulf Stream system is changing in an unpredictable way, which can lead to serious consequences on a planetary scale."
There is no official confirmation of the Zangari theory from the scientific world yet. The theory was supported by a number of prominent American environmentalists, such as Paul Noel and Sterling Allan, founder of the New Energy Congress, who published an article with the headline "Gulf Stream Stopped Due to BP Oil Leak".
And here is the real scenario, an abrupt stop of the Gulf Stream
The onset of a severe cold snap in Europe, North America and the European part of Russia.
1. Winter 2011 - the beginning of the stop of the Gulf Stream. The beginning is normal and warm. In the middle - a sharp cold snap, up to -30. Winter crops are dying. The port in Murmansk freezes over. The Gulf of Finland freezes over. Mass accidents on heating mains.
2. Spring 2011. Late and cold. Snow melts in May. Sharp warming in June. There are no particular concerns in society yet.
3. Summer 2011. Almost normal, but dry. In July - massive forest and steppe fires. In August - a sharp cold snap, heavy rains. At the end of August - the first snow. Loss of the harvest.
4. Autumn 2011. Cold and early. All forces are thrown into preparation for winter. Society starts to worry. The problem of food and last year's accidents is being discussed. There is no panic yet and all this is perceived as a "whim of the weather". In November - a real winter with snow and 20 degree frosts. The food problem is being solved at the expense of accumulated foreign exchange reserves. In addition, the sharp rise in oil and gas prices partially offset the food problems.
5. Winter 2012. Very cold. Temperature up to -50 (in the Moscow region). Mass accidents on heating mains. Power outages. Major accidents at oil and gas fields. Gas and oil in pipelines freezes. Murmansk and Baltic ports are freezing again. Disruption of power supply to entire regions. Partial evacuation of some regions. There is no gasoline at the filling stations. Property prices are falling rapidly. State of emergency in some regions. The idea of an ice age beginning to generate panic, and leading to massive psychosis. Everyone is looking forward to spring ...
6. Spring 2012 comes late. Only in May does the snow melt and streams begin to ring ...
7. Summer 2012. It's cold in early summer. The temperature is already above zero during the day, but the snow is still lying, because the temperature is below zero at night. Nobody is counting on the harvest. Everyone understands that it will only get worse. Many people understand that over the summer they need to have time to go somewhere. Collapse in property prices. Some, hoping for a return to normal weather, are buying up cheap real estate, which is dying as a result of the unrestrained rampant vandalism ... Problems in the energy sector. Disruption of European supplies. Currency difficulties in Russia. Panic in the food market. The shops are empty. The state is trying to regulate prices, introduces cards. Goskomgidromed is trying to calm down the population. Officials are at a loss, but hastily take their relatives somewhere in Spain. A sharp drop in the euro and the ruble. Falling dollar. Growth of gold. Strong growth in oil and food. The state is adopting an emergency program trying to prepare for next winter. But disintegration processes are growing. Corruption. People in power are primarily trying to solve their problems. Mass relocation to the south. Rising prices for tickets, gasoline, real estate in southern Europe and Asia. New snow falls at the end of July-August, when the old one has not melted yet.
8. Autumn 2012 - like a normal winter of the 60-70s of the 20th century (frosts down to -20-30). There is a state of emergency in the European part of Russia. An attempt to organize an organized evacuation from the most affected areas. Moving of the government to Rostov-on-Don. The Ukrainian capital moves to Kherson. Austerity mode. Food cards. Corruption. People who did not have time to leave (there are many of them) are preparing for the worst. The bourgeois business is flourishing. People are gathering firewood en masse. First of all, forests near cities and city parks are being cut down. Coal trade in urban markets. Relatively cheap meat, because the mass slaughter of livestock and poultry - there is nothing to feed them.
9. Winter 2013. Severe frosts (-40-50). It's cold in the quarters. Almost all cities with "Soviet" heat supply infrastructure are left without central heating. The atmosphere is reminiscent of besieged Leningrad. Everyone wants to go somewhere. But there is no money. Prices for apartments and houses have dropped to almost zero. Ruble and dollar savings have depreciated due to inflation. The euro has depreciated completely due to the collapse of the European Union. The state manages to restrain the discontent of the population, since no one is able to rebel in conditions of such cold weather. A big problem is crime and looting, since many apartments and houses are abandoned. Formation of organized gangs of marauders. Participation in gangs of representatives of the authorities and law enforcement agencies. Mass death of people has been avoided so far.
10. Spring 2013, like an ordinary winter of the 60-70s of the 20th century. State (military) coup in Russia. War in Europe and the world. Nobody sows anything. The military promises to ensure the evacuation, restore order with the marauders, and feed everyone with strategic supplies. People live with the hope of evacuation.
11. Summer 2013 is like a usual winter of recent years (1990-2008) - sometimes there is a plus temperature, but the snowdrifts are getting higher, since there is still snow the year before last. The icicles stopped ringing, at the rooftops they froze with a fringe, shone with cold light, froze like winter.
12. Autumn 2013, military conflicts start everywhere. The collapse of the world political system. The fourth World War is coming.
GULF STREAM (English - Gulf Stream, literally - the current of the bay), one of the most powerful warm currents in the World Ocean. Located in the North Atlantic Ocean; flowing out of the Florida Strait, it travels along the coast of North America to Cape Hatteras, where it separates from the coast. Further, the Gulf Stream spreads in the open ocean approximately along 38 ° north latitude to 40-50 ° west longitude. In this area (sometimes called the Gulf Stream delta), the current splits into several branches, the main of which, called the North Atlantic Current, extends northeast to the coast of Northern Europe. Sometimes, mistakenly, the entire system of warm currents from the shores of the Florida Peninsula to the Spitsbergen Islands and the Novaya Zemlya archipelago is called the Gulf Stream.
The reasons for the origin of the Gulf Stream are the meridional distribution of the wind, the gradient of water density, the rotation of the Earth. When entering the ocean from the Florida Strait, the water transport by the Gulf Stream is 25-29 million m3 / s, which is tens of times higher than the discharge of all rivers in the world. In the ocean, water transport by the Gulf Stream increases and at 38 ° north latitude reaches 80-90 million m 3 / s. When leaving the Florida Strait, the width of the Gulf Stream is 60-75 km, the speed of water movement is 1-3 m / s. After the separation of the Gulf Stream from the coast in the area of Cape Hatteras, the width of the Gulf Stream increases to 100-150 km, the speed decreases to 0.5-1.5 m / s. The Gulf Stream covers the upper layer of the ocean with a thickness of 700 m to 1 km. The most important feature of the Gulf Stream as a jet stream off the western coast is its instability associated with hydrodynamic reasons. A snapshot of the Gulf Stream from space does not show a continuous stream comparable to a river in the ocean, but rather a wide strip of complex eddy-like movements with a general direction of movement to the northeast, the so-called meanders and eddies of the Gulf Stream, ranging in size from several tens to several hundred kilometers. The Gulf Stream carries a large supply of heat and salt. The average annual water temperature at the surface when leaving the Florida Strait is over 25 ° C with a salinity of 36.2-36.4 ‰. With the movement of the current to the northeast, the temperature of the surface layer in the Gulf Stream delta region decreases due to interaction with the atmosphere to 13-15 ° С.
In general, the Gulf Stream and its continuation in the form of the North Atlantic Current have a great influence on the hydrological and biological characteristics of the seas and the Arctic Ocean itself, as well as on the climate of European countries. Masses of warm water heat the air passing over them, which is carried to Europe by westerly winds. An important climatic phenomenon is the North Atlantic Oscillation, the occurrence of atmospheric circulation anomalies (including the origin of cyclones). The displacement of the position of the Gulf Stream and changes in its discharge and temperature determine the dynamics of the global ocean circulation. Although these fluctuations are not very large (tens of kilometers, 1-2 ° C and no more than 5-10 million m 3 / s), they are the most important climatic factor in the northern part of the Atlantic. It is currently impossible to reliably determine whether the North Atlantic Oscillation is the cause of these changes or the oscillation itself is to some extent a consequence of them. The observed interannual changes in the position and intensity of the Gulf Stream significantly change the transport of moisture from the Atlantic to Europe, especially in winter.
Lit .: Stommell G. Gulf Stream. Physical and dynamic description. M., 1963; Burkov V.A.General circulation of the World Ocean. L., 1980; Ocean circulation and climate: observing and modeling the Global ocean. San Diego, 2000; Ocean circulation. Boston, 2001.
On the way, giving your warmth.
1. Track
Gulf Stream flow diagram
The current stretches for 10 thousand km from the shores of the Florida Peninsula to the islands of Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya. It begins in the Gulf of Mexico with the sewage waters of the Antilles Current, passes the Florida Strait, and, deviating from the Great Bahamian Bank on the left and receiving the waters of the Antilles Current, flows along the US coastline into the Newfoundland Bank. The current carries huge masses of free-floating algae of the genus Sargassum of thermophilic tropical fish (also flying fish). Off the coast of Florida, a clear boundary of the current is contrastingly separating the blue (indigo) warm waters from the greenish-gray coastal cool, but more oxygenated waters.
On the southern edge of the Newfoundland Bank, the cold Labrador Current approaches the Gulf Stream from the north, on the border of which surface waters are mixed and subsided. Cold northern air masses are also encountered here, which cause the dominance of fogs.
After passing the Newfoundland Bank (at about 40 west longitude), the Gulf Stream itself passes into the North Atlantic Current, which, under the influence of westerly and southwestern winds, crosses the ocean from east to west, gradually changing its direction off the coast of Europe to the northeast. When crossing the Atlantic Ocean at about 40 west longitude 50 north latitude, it is divided in two:
The main flow of the North Atlantic Current flows into the Norwegian Sea and further north along the western coast of the Scandinavian Peninsula called the Norwegian Current. In the northern part of Scandinavia, a branch is separated from the stream - the North Cape Current, which is directed to the east by the southern part of the Barents Sea.
The main stream of the Norwegian Current continues northward, where, under the name of the Svalbard Current, it runs along the western shores of Svalbard. To the north of Svalbard, currents sink to a depth and are traced in the Arctic Ocean under cold and freshened surface waters as a warm and salty intermediate current.
Warm waters gradually cool down along the route and descend and head south again. There they heat up again, rise to the surface and return north.
2. Reasons for education
The reason for the appearance of the current is a large surge of trade winds of water through the Yucatan Strait to the Gulf of Mexico. This is what causes a significant difference in water level between the bay and the adjacent part of the Atlantic Ocean. At the outlet to the ocean, the current capacity is 25 million m / s (2160 km per day), which is 20 times higher than the costs of all rivers in the world. In the ocean, the current connects with the Antilles current, and the thickness of the Gulf Stream increases and at 38 north latitude reaches 82 million m / s. One of the features of the Gulf Stream is that, in violation of the general regularity of movement in the Northern Hemisphere, the current at the exit to the ocean deviates not to the right under the influence of the Coriolis force, but to the left. This is due to the increased sea level in the anticyclonic region in the subtropical Atlantic Ocean and the increased water pressure at the outlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
Global warming is weakening the current due to an increase in the volume of fresh melt water from the glaciers of Greenland and the Arctic, as well as Russian rivers flowing into the North Atlantic. The latter reduce the salinity of the water, which creates difficulties for lowering cold water and, as a result, slows down the operation of the mechanism that sets the current in motion.
3. Water characteristics
Temperature map of the Atlantic. Warm waters are marked in red
When leaving the Gulf of Mexico into the Florida Strait, the speed of water movement reaches 80 - 120 nautical miles per day (5-9 km / h). Surface water temperature is 27 C, salinity is 36.5. In the ocean, the Gulf Stream also moves at a speed of 6 km / h (sometimes up to 10 km / h) northward, along the edge of the continental shelf of North America, and at Cape Gateras it deviates northeast, towards the Newfoundland Bank. Here its speed decreases to 3-4 km / h. The width of the current in the south is 75 km, at Cape Gateras - 110-120 km. The thickness of the stream is 700-800 m, gradually decreasing to the north. During the movement, the Gulf Stream forms numerous meanders, and in the stream itself, on the eastern border, cyclical gyres develop, which can separate and move independently to the north.
The Gulf Stream carries a large supply of heat and salts. The average annual water temperature on the surface is 25-26 C, at a depth of 400 m the temperature is 10-12 C. Salinity is 36.2-36.4, maximum - 36.5, is observed at a depth of 200 m.
The water consumption of the Gulf Stream is 50 million m / s with a heat output of 1.4 10 15 Watts. This is equal to the capacity of 1 million modern nuclear power plants.
4. Influence
The Gulf Stream affects the climate on the east coast of North America from Florida to Newfoundland, and on the west coast of Europe. The system of warm currents of the Gulf Stream also significantly affects the hydrological and biological characteristics of both the seas and the Arctic Ocean itself. Masses of warm water heat the air masses above them, and are transported to Europe by westerly winds. Air temperature deviations from average latitudinal values in January in Norway reach 15-20 C, in Murmansk - more than 11 C.
5. Dependence on winds
Changes in water temperature in the stream are closely related to fluctuations in the strength of the trade winds that catch up with warm tropical waters in the Gulf of Mexico. Strengthening of the northeastern trade wind affects the temperature rise of the Gulf Stream in 3-6 months, and the strengthening of the southeastern trade wind - after 6-9 months. The rise in temperature is followed by periods of cooling due to the fact that the strengthening of the trade winds leads to a simultaneous cooling of the ocean surface. Off the coast of Africa, cold waters rise from the depths. The periods of decreasing temperature of the Gulf Stream occur 9-11 months after the strengthening of the north-east trade wind and 10-12 months after the strengthening of the south-east trade wind.
6. Research
The course was discovered in the year by the Spanish expedition of Ponce de León. The first studies of the current began with increased shipping off the coast of North America in the 18th century. In the year, Benjamin Franklin became interested in the fact that mail ships from England sail north to America for several weeks longer south. The map he compiled was published a year in England, a year in France, a year in the United States. It was he who gave the current the name - "current from the bay" (eng. Gulf stream ).
Systematic exploration of the Gulf Stream began in the middle of the 20th century. For the first time, a significant decrease in the power of the current was recorded in a year. Scientists are now trying to figure out whether the process of attenuation of power is short-term or long-term. Krmmel, Die Atlantischen Meeresstrmmungen ("Zeitschr. F. Wissenschaftliche Geographie", 4 Jahrgang) ()
6.2. Anomalies 2010
In the spring and summer of the year, anomalies were recorded in the picture of the Gulf Stream. Based on the available satellite data, Dr. Gianluigi Zangara, a theoretical physicist at the National Institute of Nuclear Physics of Italy, notes that the power of the current has decreased significantly, and discontinuities are observed. He attributes this to the accident at an oil well in the Gulf of Mexico. The current in the bay closed on itself, due to which the inflow of warm waters to the Gulf Stream significantly decreased
Notes (edit)
- Risk of global climate change by BP oil spill - www.associazionegeofisica.it / OilSpill.pdf / / report by theoretical physicist Gianluigi Zangar for Frascati National Laboratories (LNF), National Institute of Nuclear Physics of Italy - INFN). (English)
Literature
- (Rus.) Gershman I. G. The Gulf Stream and Its Influence on Climate, Meteorology and Hydrology, 1939, no. 7-8.
- (Rus.) V. V. Shuleikin, Physics of the Sea, 3rd ed., Moscow, 1953.
- (Rus.) Samoilov K.I. Marine dictionary. - M.-L .: State Naval Publishing House of the NKVMF of the USSR, 1941.
- (Rus.) Geography. Modern Illustrated Encyclopedia, ed. prof. A.P. Gorkin. Rosman, 2006.
- (Rus.) Stommel G. Gulf Stream, lane. from English, M., 1963.
A group of Russian scientists, led by Valery Karnaukhov, Deputy Director of the Institute of Cell Biophysics in Pushchino, on the instructions of the Russian Emergencies Ministry in April 2000, calculated a scenario according to which events in Russia would develop. The script turned out to be much more dramatic than that of Emmerich.
So, suppose the Gulf Stream has risen, warm water does not enter the Arctic, and the Arctic is more and more covered with ice. Eventually, a huge ice dam will form along the northern coast of Russia. The dam, against which the most powerful Siberian rivers abut: Yenisei, Lena, Ob and so on. At the end of the 20th century, the overflow of Lena, which did not manage to break open from the ice in time, led to a real disaster and virtually destroyed the city of Lensk. After the formation of the Siberian ice dam, this "in time" will no longer be. Every year the ice jams on the rivers will become more and more powerful, and the floods will become more and more extensive.
In the early 1950s, a project to create a man-made West Siberian Sea was developed and almost put into production in the USSR. Huge dams were supposed to block the currents of the Ob and Yenisei at the exit to the ocean. As a result, the entire West Siberian lowland would be flooded, the country would receive the world's largest North-Ob hydroelectric power station, and the evaporation of a new sea, in area comparable to the Mediterranean, should have greatly mitigated the sharply continental Siberian climate. However, unfortunately or fortunately ?, shortly before the start of the project, the largest oil reserves were found in the area subject to flooding, and the "sea building" had to be postponed. Now, what man could not do, nature will do. Only the ice dam will be slightly higher than the one that we were going to build. Consequently, the spill will be larger. Ice dams will gradually block river flows. Water from the Ob and Yenisei, not finding an outlet into the ocean, will flood the lowland. The water level in the new sea will rise until it reaches 130 meters. After that, it will start flowing to Europe through the Turgai Hollow, located in the eastern part of the Ural Mountains. The resulting stream will wash away the 40-meter layer of soil and expose the granite bottom of the hollow. As the channel widens and deepens, the level of the young sea will eventually drop to 90 meters. Excess water will fill the Turan lowland, the Aral Sea will merge with the Caspian, and the level of the latter will rise by more than 80 meters. Further, the water along the Kumo-Manych depression will spill into the Don. These will actually be the greatest Siberian rivers turned towards Europe, and not any miserable 7% of the Ob, which, in the case of the famous project, should have fed the whole of Central Asia, and 100% of the same Ob and 100% of the Yenisei.
The Central Asian republics will be under water, and the Don will turn into the deepest river in the world, next to which the Amazon or Amur will look like unreasonable streams. The width of the stream will reach 50 kilometers or more. The level of the Azov Sea will rise so much that it will flood the Crimean Peninsula and merge with the Black Sea. Then the water through the Bosphorus will go to the Mediterranean Sea. But the Bosphorus will not cope with such volumes. The Krasnodar Territory, part of Turkey and almost all of Bulgaria will go under the water. Scientists assign 50-70 years to everything about everything. By this time, the northern part of Russia, the Scandinavian countries, the Netherlands, Denmark, Finland, almost all of Great Britain, most of Germany and France will be covered with ice.
The slowing down Gulf Stream - the cause of weather anomalies
Senior researcher at the Institute of Cell Biophysics of the Russian Academy of Sciences, climatologist Alexei Karnaukhov told what the weather anomalies and climate changes on our planet are connected with.
What's happening to our climate? Why does it rain in Russia in January, and snow sweeps in America?
A question to the Armenian radio: "Where did the Russian winter go? She left to work in America." This is a joke. To be serious, we are developing several processes in the climatic sphere of the Earth. The first major process, against the background of which all the others are unfolding, is global warming, associated with the release of large amounts of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere.
Over the past 100 years, the amount of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has increased by 40 percent, almost one and a half times. This figure exceeded the significant value of 400 ppm, the so-called 400 ppm. The pre-industrial value was approximately 280 ppm. Such a significant increase significantly alters the heat balance of our planet. If it were not for the influence of the oceans, the temperature rise on our planet today would be 10 degrees, compared to the pre-industrial era.
The same 10 degrees in 2010, 30 records were set that year, and in fact, this was due to the fact that the air masses were so formed that the sea could no longer cool those air masses that were over the territory of Russia. And this is very important, because such abnormal heat waves, or heat waves, will be repeated more often every year. They will have a greater significance of these anomalies, and, say, in 30-40 years we can have in Moscow not 40 degrees, as in 2010, but all 50. At the same time, a process is developing, which is a consequence of global warming.
Which?
This is a change in the direction of the current in the oceans. The fact is that all the variety of currents that we observe in the seas and oceans today was formed from certain climatic conditions, the climate changes, the distribution of heat changes, the wind flows change, the picture of the currents changes.
In particular, a very important current for the entire climate of Europe, Russia and America is the Gulf Stream, which may stop as a result of global warming. The mechanism for stopping the Gulf Stream is described in my 1994 work.
Tell us briefly what it looks like ...
Very simple. As a result of global warming, Arctic glaciers are melting, in particular, the Greenland glaciers, which have stored a huge amount of fresh water. Because of this, the water in the Arctic Ocean is freshened in such a cold current as the Labrodor current, which originates in the Arctic basin, and this current is also freshened. Moving at the ready to the Golsf Stream, at one moment it can block the path of the Gulf Stream to the north. They are currently meeting in the Newfoundland Bank area.
Today, while the Gulf Stream is still working, the Labrodore Current, despite the fact that it is already more bland, dives under the Gulf Stream, prevents it from moving north and heats all of Europe, Russia and even all of Asia and America. Therefore, we have a relatively favorable climate.
Now we are observing the instability of the Gulf Stream in the form of anomalies (heat in Russia, abnormal cold in the USA). In my opinion, this is due to the unevenness of the Gulf Stream.
This is a common property of such complex systems, at the point of bifurcation fluctuations increase in them, that is, roughly speaking, a car that has a clogged carburetor or runs out of gasoline will go jerky before it finally stops. In the same way, the Gulf Stream, before it stops, begins to move with such jerks.
For example, in the fall we had winter a little earlier in Siberia. Because of this, northern delivery was disrupted in a number of regions. And even earlier, in May, snow fell in Spain. There was snow in Cairo, and for some time the Venetian canals were under the ice.
The current of the Gulf Stream brings us a huge number of such anomalies, and this is very dangerous.
To understand the latest events in the world, you need to clearly understand two things. The US dollar is not the state currency at all, but the money of a private firm called the Federal Reserve System (FRS). And second, in the coming years, a catastrophic deterioration of the climate is coming on both sides of the North Atlantic.
And these things are tightly interconnected. There is no political chaos. There are clear actions by the Fed on the future structure of the planet Earth after a sharp cooling in the United States and Western Europe. Exactly where the so-called golden billion lives now happily ever after.
The warm and comfortable climate of the USA and Western Europe is 90% due to the action of the Gulf Stream, which carries 50 million cubic meters. m of warm water per second. Its capacity is equivalent to one million nuclear power plants. This "thermal additive" raises the temperature in Europe and the USA by 8-10 degrees. The action of the Gulf Stream creates exceptional conditions for agriculture in these areas. The grain yield in non-chernozemic Germany, France, Great Britain, Sweden ranges from 60 to 85 centners per hectare. And in black earth Ukraine only 24 centners are harvested, in non-black earth Russia - 12–15 centners / ha. In Europe and the USA, there are no spring frosts that destroy crops. Today the USA and Canada export 100 million tons of grain, and Western Europe - 50 million tons per year. The yield of agricultural crops there is only 5% dependent on the climate, while in our country it is 50%.
The favorable warm climate, the absence of permafrost and freezing of the soil can save trillions of dollars on infrastructure and its operation. A huge amount of fuel and electricity, building materials, insulation is saved. There is no need to build powerful heating plants and heating mains. The population saves on warm clothes, there is no need to eat more high-calorie foods. Due to the absence of deadly processes of freezing-thawing, roads are preserved ten times longer. Light houses are being built from cheap materials. Remember the standard scene from Hollywood action movies, how some Rambo punches the wall of a house with a blow of his fist. And this is not fantasy. Strong walls are not needed there. Warmly. This comrade would try to break through the wall of our house with four bricks.
In general, the Gulf Stream for Europe and the United States is a royal gift to their economies and population. Live for yourself and enjoy. But then a large-scale trouble happened. "Free" Gulf Stream began to junk. Weather Kitchen is located in the North Atlantic and Arctic Ocean. The warm ocean current, the Gulf Stream, which is often called the "stove of Europe", plays the role of the heating system.
Now the picture of ocean currents looks like this - the cold and denser Labrador current "dives" under the warm and lighter Gulf Stream, without interfering with it to heat Europe. Then the Labrador Current "emerges" off the coast of Spain under the name of the cold Canary Current, crosses the Atlantic, reaches the Caribbean Sea, heats up and, under the name of the Gulf Stream, rushes back to the North without hindrance. Not the "greenhouse effect", not the "ozone holes", not the man-made activity of mankind, but the density of Labrador waters is a key factor in the well-being of the world. At present, the density of the waters of the Labrador Current is only one tenth of a percent higher than the density of the waters of the Gulf Stream.
Only 0.1%, and as a result - palm trees in London, the beaches of the Cote d'Azur, the ice-free fjords of Norway and year-round navigation in the Barents Sea
As soon as the Labrador Current equals the density of the Gulf Stream, it will rise to the ocean surface and block the northward movement of the Gulf Stream. The great interconnected "eight" of ocean currents will turn into two circular currents characteristic of the ice age. The Gulf Stream will head towards Spain and begin to circulate in a small circle, the cold Labrador Current will break through to Europe, which will immediately begin to freeze.
Data on previous cold snaps obtained when drilling ice in Greenland show that this will happen almost instantly, even by the standards of human life. Three to ten years for the whole process - and the Gulf Stream will be "turned off". The air temperature in Europe will become Siberian in a few short years. Living in Europe, Canada and the United States will become unbearable. Today there are palm trees in London, and tomorrow Britain will be buried in snow, frosts will reach -40 ° C, and even reindeer will refuse to live there. And who would have guessed that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico and the massive use of dispersants would affect the speed of the Gulf Stream.
According to the latest satellite data, the North Atlantic Current no longer exists in its former form. The Norwegian Current also disappeared with it.
As a result of the cold snap and the inevitable shortage of food, each person from the “golden billion” will have to spend 3-4 thousand dollars more per year. This is 3-4 trillion. dollars. To adapt the infrastructure, 15-20 trillion will be needed, to keep it in working order in winter - another two to three trillion "green".
But this is not the worst thing. We'll have to take the missing heat somewhere for the winter heating of a billion people and feed these "golden" people. Now the USA and Europe export 150 million tons of grain per year, and they will have to buy about the same amount of grain somewhere. So the feverish secret preparations for the climate collapse began.
As early as 3-4 years ago, the exodus of the mini-rich began - only middle-class millionaires left the United States - those who, despite the relatively large money, still do not solve really serious issues. Now the hyper-rich have taken over. American super-oligarchs (attention!) Of non-Jewish origin buy land in Chile and Argentina. Among them are (authentically) Rockefellers, Ted Turner, Holdren, Fords and others .......
What do they know about? About stopping the Gulf Stream or about the imminent explosion of the Yellowstone volcano? ...
And what to expect ... what awaits us either DRY and heat, or ICE and freezing ... or maybe a flood?
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Individual currents in the oceans are combined into systems included in the general basin circulation. The most famous sea current is the Gulf Stream. This name is translated into Russian as Current from the Gulf. It has survived from those distant times when it is believed that the current arises as a stream of water rushing from the Gulf of Mexico through the Florida Strait to. It is now known that only a small fraction of the Gulf Stream is carried out of the gulf. The current emerging from there is now preferred to be called the Florida. The oceanic current, reaching the latitude of Cape Hatteras on the coast, receives a powerful tributary from the Sargasso Sea. This is where the Gulf Stream itself begins, a mighty "river in the ocean", going down to a depth of 700 - 800 m and reaching a width of 110 - 120 km. One more feature of the Gulf Stream was noted: upon entering the ocean, it deviates not to the right, as it should be in the Northern Hemisphere under the influence of the Earth's rotation, but to the left! This is the result of the increased sea level in its subtropical part. The average temperature of the surface layers of the current is 25 - 26 ° (at a depth of about 400 m - only 10 - 12 °). However, in the Gulf Stream, at a distance of the length of the ship's hull, there are large temperature differences, reaching 10 °, and the change in the color and transparency of the sea water occurs literally before our eyes.
In the surface layer of the current, a core of waters of elevated temperature is usually found, which is most pronounced at the very surface of the ocean, and a core of high salinity waters centered at depths of 100-200 m. This feature can be traced up to the Great Newfoundland Bank. Thus, the idea of the Gulf Stream as a very warm current passing through colder waters is valid only for the surface layer, but in it the warmest waters are only a few degrees higher than the surface temperature of the Sargasso Sea.
Surface velocities of the Gulf Stream proper can reach 2.0 - 2.6 m / s. Even at depths of about 2 km, they are still significant: 10 - 20 cm / s. When leaving the Florida Strait, the current capacity is 25 million m3 / s (and this value is more than 20 times higher than the discharge of all rivers on the planet); after the addition of the Antilles Current (from the Sargasso Sea), the flow capacity increases to 106 million m / s.
And such a mighty stream rushes northeast to the Great Newfoundland Bank. From here, the Gulf Stream, as well as the Slope Current separating from it, turns to the south, being included in the North Atlantic Gyre. And across the ocean, to the east, the North Atlantic current rushes towards, which is sometimes considered part of the secondary oceanic current.
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