![]() ![]() His startling facts surpasses his art of story-telling to magnanimous quantities.) Its fast paced, and as one of the critics wrote in the back cover: "Hugely entertaining! I started reading The Day After Tomorrow at 2 in the afternoon and finished reading it, my eyes bleeding at 3 am. ( Something I feel happens to Dan Brown every time he starts to write a thriller. I wonder how the author Allan Folsom managed to amalgamate science, history and technology all in the same novel, without letting it seem bogged down with the weight of his research. ![]() A truth which can change the future forever! What ensues is a battle of wits, with startling revelations, resulting in the chaser becoming the chased, until in the end, he confronts a terrifying truth. The plot deals with a doctor who gets drawn into a web of international conspiracy when he chances upon his father's killer in a small cafe in Cafe. In fact, there is already evidence that this may be starting to happen.The Day After Tomorrow was one of the first thrillers that I ever read, at age 12, from my school library.(I presume that the librarian had not read it herself, so as to include in the shelf, considering it had liberal doses of 'between the sheets' activities!)Įrr, not the 'between the sheets' part. “We urgently need to reconcile our models with the presented observational evidence to assess how far from or how close to its critical threshold the AMOC really is.”Įngland notes that Southern Hemisphere may also be affected: “There are similar overturning circulations around the Antarctic continent, and once again, with land-ice melt those overturning circulations could shut down under global warming. This shows how much we are perturbing Earth’s climate system with ongoing emissions of greenhouse gases.”īoers says that his results are surprising: “I wouldn’t have expected that the excessive amounts of freshwater added in the course of the last century would already produce such a response in the overturning circulation. “It identifies early warning signs of a collapse of the AMOC, and unfortunately the evidence is that we are close to a point of critical transition in the system. “We already know from some computer simulations and from data from Earth’s past, so-called paleoclimate proxy records, that the AMOC can exhibit – in addition to the currently attained strong mode – an alternative, substantially weaker mode of operation,” Boers says.Įngland, who was not involved in this study, confirms that this is important work. If it collapses, it could have impacts such as significantly cooling Europe and affecting tropical monsoon systems. ![]() “The Atlantic Meridional Overturning really is one of our planet’s key circulation systems,” says Niklas Boers, the study’s author from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, Free University Berlin and Exeter University. Because it redistributes heat, this circulation system is not only responsible for creating mild temperatures across Europe but also influencing weather systems across the world. This is concerning because the AMOC is responsible for the Gulf Stream, a swift current that brings warm water masses from tropical regions to the northern hemisphere. A German scientist has echoed the warnings of the film The Day After Tomorrow, finding that a major oceanic circulation system is becoming more unstable – with concerning implications for the climate.Ī study published in Nature Climate Change observes that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) – a massive ocean current system that circulates through the Atlantic – may have been losing stability over the past century, due to the influx of melted freshwater into the ocean. ![]()
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