In the film, the day after tomorrow the climatologist goes on about the flow of the ocean, the way it travels in a cycle heating up and cooling down, & that the cycle is shutting down causing all the effects that the film illusteates.... What's the name of this cycle please anyone ????
2007-02-12 21:51:56 · 7 answers · asked by PEO 1 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Earth Sciences & Geology
Yes!! This has been bugging me recently and then a lightbulb appeared in my head. The climatologist was on about this:
The North Atlantic Current (North Atlantic Drift and the North Atlantic Sea Movement) is a powerful warm ocean current that continues the Gulf Stream northwest.
Global warming and the greenhouse gases emitted mainly from the USA are contributing to the melting of the Polar Ice Caps, which, in turn, effects the North Atlantic Drift by increasing it's temperature and making it change it's course so it can affect other countries.
This is why, eventually, a new Ice Age dawns. Though, in my own personal opinion, it shouldn't really happen that quick. Minimum, MINIMUM, is about 50-100 years.
Hope this helps you understand the movie more.
:o)
2007-02-16 09:28:38 · answer #1 · answered by Lozza_07 3 · 0⤊ 1⤋
As Smiddy says its the great ocean conveyor. We in Britain have our weather controlled by the Gulf Stream. Thats water travelling and heating up as it runs along the American continents East coast before spilling across the Atlantic to surround Britain. If global warming consists, we in Britain are in for a shock..!
If sea levels rise more than four inches, the Gulf Stream will no longer have the energy to travel that distance whilst holding onto the heat it does, meaning we will get COLDER not warmer.
Dont think that global warming means long summers and ice cream. Its the end of the world as we know it.
2007-02-13 06:16:11 · answer #2 · answered by Merovingian 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
This is a really complex subject. Most scientists refer to it as an 'oceanic conveyor belt' driven by differences in the temperature, density and salinity of high and low latitude oceans and different ocean basins. This circulation helps to transport heat around the planet. Surface water is heated in the Pacific Ocean and splits into two branches: one travels west into the Indian Ocean and the other goes eastwards into the South Atlantic. The warm branch in the Indian Ocean travels around South Africa and also enters the South Atlantic. They then combine and travel northwards. In the high northern latitudes the water cools and becomes denser and sinks to flow southwards as cold deep bottom water. Then the cycle starts again. Apparently it takes a 'parcel' of water several hundred years to travel around the conveyor belt.
2007-02-13 10:38:29 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
The Great Ocean Conveyor (thermohaline circulation) - The Achilles Heel of the climate system? (Read full article at link below)
The global ocean is not a static pond, but a body in constant motion. Winds blow across its surface, generating waves and currents, while the pull of gravity gently sloshes it back and forth in a lunar rhythm of tides. But beneath these familiar surficial motions lies an enigmatic process which has profound implications for climate: the Great Ocean Conveyor (also called the thermohaline circulation). The Conveyor is one of the great unknowns in humanity's unintentional climate change experiment.
2007-02-13 05:58:50 · answer #4 · answered by Smiddy 5 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Global cooling???? Why not...if they SAY there's global warming. Then why not Global Cooling.
2007-02-13 05:56:05 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
global warming!
2007-02-13 06:01:50 · answer #6 · answered by oysidius_torchwood 2 · 0⤊ 2⤋
Everything you need to know is here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Day_After_Tomorrow
2007-02-13 05:57:01 · answer #7 · answered by D M L 4 · 0⤊ 2⤋