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What happens if a crucial ocean current collapses? | About That

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A major ocean current responsible for circulating water in the Atlantic Ocean and maintaining global weather patterns is at risk of collapsing. About That producer Lauren Bird explains why it's believed to be weakening, and what experts warn could happen if it does.
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@stevenrichardscott1622 Жыл бұрын

The AMOC and the Gulf Stream are two different, though connected, things. The first is powered by water temperature and salinity, the second by the spinning of the earth and wind. Thus the stopping of the AMOC does not mean the end of the Gulf Stream.

@ElectroCouture Жыл бұрын

YESSIR! They are talking nonsense in order to impliment new draconian measures to control our lives... Worst part is, it will all be for naught! If you follow legit, open minded, highly qualified climatologists, they will tell you there is much much more at play and that we have zero control over... Yet here we are playing day after tomorrow clips to frighten people into submission when the measures are rolled out. I would hate to be Canadian these days. Its gonna suck for Europe AND Canada. Dont get me wrong, they will try it here in the states, but our constitution is keeping them in check.

@renatoantonelli3894 Жыл бұрын

Therefore what happens to the gulf stream if the Amoc is interrupted ?

@mayatara1980 5 ай бұрын

Came here to say that.

@TheVinor14 4 ай бұрын

So.....were in the video, did they get that confused? Do you know how amoc can affect farming

@showme360 Ай бұрын

Please do a video demonstarting your argument! Because I don't know where your golf stream starts and ends.

@FarmerRiddick Жыл бұрын

The children and grandchildren born today have a likely chance of experiencing the negative effects in their old age tomorrow. Thanks mom and dad, grandma and grandpa for the gifts of struggle and hard survival.

@chinookvalley Жыл бұрын

If things happen like the profits say, WE will see the negative effects happen. I'm guessing we have until 2025 to call it, "the good ol' days". Our children don't stand a chance. Forget the grandchildren. Too little too late.

@FarmerRiddick Жыл бұрын

@@chinookvalley Still, we must endure and keep doing what we can. these children are an example of a form of right action.

@tealkerberus748 3 ай бұрын

Humans have lived through struggling to survive before now. Future generations are going to have an extra burden of rage that the struggle bequeathed to them was so unnecessary - the leaders and voters from the 20th century knew exactly what they were doing and chose to continue doing it - but they will still do their absolute best to survive and thrive. That's what all life forms do.

@peterp5099 Ай бұрын

So how could we switch our current global economic system against one that would allow saving the climate to work? I mean, today the richest 10% are responsible for half of the climate relevant emissions, and in our current system there is literally nothing that we could do to make them reduce that.

@social3ngin33rin Жыл бұрын

2100 is really close But 2yr is much closer

@misterfunnybones 6 ай бұрын

How much fresh & sea water Arctic & Antarctic ice melting from sea water ice & land-based glaciers will it take to convince people that things are changing?

@chinookvalley Жыл бұрын

Sad how people aren't willing to look at the facts. If you think that God created the Garden of Eden, you don't want to contemplate the fact that YOU are killing it? Let's see how your God judges you for your morals and actions.

@mayatara1980 5 ай бұрын

I am not religious, and I do not challenge that we are totally disrupting the ecosystems and climate systems, I just want to point out we're not killing the planet per se, we're destroying its current biosphere. The planet will be fine and readjust itself and find new balances, as it always does, and life will thrive again with news species replacing the old ones, the problem is we're killing ourselves and most other life we depend on to survive. So in that sense, you can say we're killing "the planet", but it will bounce off once it gets rid of us. Your argument is still a good one. According to the bible, we're supposed to be the caretakers of god's creation. But when someone wrongfully translated "care for" for "dominate", to justify destroying it and killing all the animals, that's when they completely took us away from being caretakers of "god's creation" and now they really don't seem to care anymore.

@loveobviously Жыл бұрын

Could you imagine “IF” this movie actually happened 🤯

@CHIEF_420 Жыл бұрын

🌏⌚️

@Magickmoon Жыл бұрын

The truth is stranger than fiction, think about that!

@justbecauseOK Жыл бұрын

If you dont like climate science then please do not comment here. We who do believe the scientists will be picking up the pieces for you. That will probably be a little bit humbling for you.

@cricketmusic62 11 ай бұрын

Climate change is for real, but it is unstoppable because it is a cycle the Earth will complete. Always has and the evidence confirms it. The proposterous claim of human carbon emissions is the root cause of the ever changing climate cycle, now thats where the ethical scientists leave the room. Biggest scam that has ever been played on some parts of the world, but millions of Americans have been and will continue to be duped for the ill gotten gains of a few billionaires.

@DarkSideOfThePepper Жыл бұрын

IF this and IF that

@jsEMCsquared Жыл бұрын

@FaithShortridge " i think ,therefore I am." You ,whomever you are, must not exist.

@sandorski56 Жыл бұрын

Don't miss the forest for the trees.

@ryuuguu01 Жыл бұрын

Some missing points in the video. The latest paper that has everyone talking about this now says it will stop between 2025 and 2095. The end of the video leaves the impression that 2100 is the expected year it will stop not 2065 which is what the paper says the expected date is. Also, it only mentions in passing that it evens out the temperature between temperate Northern latitudes and tropical equatorial latitudes. So we get climate change deniers talking about ice ages. In reality, it means a slower warming in the north and faster warming in the south part of the northern hemisphere.

@TherealRTZ973 Жыл бұрын

The water movement now is what evens out the temperature. If you get rid of it you will see further extremes. Warm places like England will see an incredible amount of cooling. I'm sure as the planet on average continues to heat It will go far above that after.

@javiersantos4385 Жыл бұрын

I agree, good point. I also thought she failed to include the effects on salinity, that makes salty warm water sink under cooler but less saline arctic meltwater.

@grindupBaker 9 күн бұрын

AMOC is down from 20Sv to 17Sv now. Scientists estimate it's unstoppable at 10Sv. "Collapse" or "tipping point" means it passes a point at which it becomes self-sustaining so continued slowing to a total stop is inevitable, unstoppable. It then takes about 100 years to finish slowing from 10Sv to a total stop with whatever climate effects that has steadily progressing. The point is that its slowing becomes UNSTOPPABLE at the "Collapse" or "tipping point" (estimated 10Sv) and not at all that it STOPS at the "Collapse" or "tipping point". This from Stefan Rahmstorf leading expert with many AMOC papers published.

@da80 Жыл бұрын

13k years in Earth age is a blink of an eye

@showme360 Ай бұрын

At 35 gigatonnes of CO2 being released each year, I don't see any relaxing of the emissions. After all the meteorite than finished the dinosaurs was estimated to be around 600 - 1000 gigatonnes, we matched that in the last 20 years, and are on target to reach the 1000 gigatonnes by 2040 all be it slower. Its the migrations of billions of people from the equator to the North hemisphere that will be be the biggest problem for humanity!

@grindupBaker 9 күн бұрын

If the AMOC stops then the Gulf Stream will slow down a tad less than 50% because the gyre wind will keep blowing. However (HOWEVER) most by far of the heat it carries north will stop because the gyre wind blows water around without a big change in its temperature but AMOC overturning brings water north thats many degrees warmer than the water south. Well it's 17Sv carrying 900 terawatts (800 billion electric kettles) so the temperature change it brings must be 900,000,000,000,000 / (17,000,000,000 * 4120) = 12.8 degrees (the water departing south must be 12.8 degrees colder than the warm surface water flowing north). The Gulf Stream is 35Sv but that wind driven 18Sv bit isn't dumping much heat into the north, nowhere near the 12.8 degrees of the AMOC overturning.

@matthewporter1376 Жыл бұрын

If we are the problem then let's limit how many people there are? What's the holding capacity of earth? 1B? Maybe less; the people that call earth home should love her like a mother.

@gokulkrishna4011 Жыл бұрын

Is it possible it can happen faster

@haydndoucet4172 11 ай бұрын

When the Beaufort gyre releases it could stop the AMOC. Recently 2023 it changed and looks like it wi release, but they’ve been saying that since 2017. So it could any day or year. It holds 40% more freshwater than it had since the 70’s. It holds as much freshwater as the Great Lakes.

@08wolfeyes Жыл бұрын

Well, the Amoc has already begun slowing down.

@kimlibera663 17 күн бұрын

Bunk. Gulf current will not collapse. This is because it moves via the rotation of the earth.

@angelsplace 3 ай бұрын

Professor Kevin Anderson explains AMOC collapse better on utube.

@JB-np5xi 6 ай бұрын

Our friend the atom 30+yrs ago and we would not be where we are today.

@davidgeyer3988 15 күн бұрын

Please check your fact the rotation of the earth causes this current.

@7Trident3 Жыл бұрын

Canada has the worlds largest salt mine???!!!

@EmeraldView Жыл бұрын

Well they did until Trump lost the election in 2020 and then all his criminal indictments Now the largest salt mine is his horde of MAGAts.

@cjever6625 4 ай бұрын

A great video to make will be about the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement which will be a decade old next year. How much have we done?

@cynthiadonegan2097 Жыл бұрын

How is it possible for you or anyone to be absolute about "what if"? Thanks for the minimal data but - no thanks to a plastic container & glass tank to give credit to a living planet - what a joke

@EmeraldView Жыл бұрын

It was a simple basic demonstration to illustrate a concept. Do you think climate scientists do THAT (tank thing) and then draw their conclusions?

@MaryJane-hi7tu Жыл бұрын

10 years later we'll be saying remember that time they thought the currant was going to stop.

@ninemoonplanet Жыл бұрын

I hope your here when another decade is done, then add this to your memory, write it down and see if you are right.

@MaryJane-hi7tu Жыл бұрын

@@ninemoonplanet no need to wright it down. I'll find out in ten years. I could care less. An asteroid could wipe us out tomorrow. Do I seem worried?

@MaryJane-hi7tu Жыл бұрын

I am worried Trudeau is going to screw over the middle class though. 🙃

@da80 Жыл бұрын

let's tag it in our calendars 10 years from today to see how much more we all destroyed our only home while still living in it.

@MaryJane-hi7tu Жыл бұрын

@@da80 nothing to do with us. It's pretty ignorant of you to think humans can destroy the planet. You don't give this rock the credit it deserves.

@tophat2115 6 ай бұрын

could be, might be...don't hedge, the human brain says, nothing to worry about then... this needs attention especially if you live on this planet

@leohorishny9561 6 ай бұрын

It needs to happen, otherwise concrete steps to affect anything will not happen for decades.

@degagnemarc 6 ай бұрын

Little correction on, "We are not at this point yet !". I don't know how one measure the start of something, but on my side, if there are sings, it has started! Yes we are at this point now, It's starting and every sings are there. In 2021, Canada had It's worst crop yield and so as other food countries. Droughts and floods, fires, tornados where there was none, hurricane stronger than ever, climate going from drought to floods over and over again. Yes there is other factors contributing to the rise cost of food but the main one is availability. Food cost is just going to rise rapidly and as other goods as rebound. No food does mean the crash of this type of economy we live in and the good comfort of modern living we enjoy so mush and take for granted. In 2023 we had our FIRST full year 1.4 °C above pre industrial levels. Ok it does take at least a decade of repeated temperatures to say we reached it, but it as started nevertheless. And the gentlemen comment before me is right about the AMOC and the gulf stream. These are two distinctive currents, one influences the other but are considered different. I don't now what it will take for people to open there eyes!

@grindupBaker 9 күн бұрын

@robin1655 Жыл бұрын

The cartoon ball 😂

@DerekFolan 6 ай бұрын

The current would depend on gravity ? Tides. So unless the land is changing to funnel water off somewhere else like man made lakes, massive canals ? The rotation of the planet might change if the weight of the water starts moving in another direction, so then tides could maybe wash over countries or your country could end up suddenly bigger as the water goes somewhere else. Hot water rising towards the surface has zero to do with current movements. Like if Ireland was positioned on the Pacific equator it would be underwater, if you view the earth without water its not round at all

@LuvLight44 22 күн бұрын

The Great Mother they shouldn’t have made dams. The water will go back where The Great Mother put HER water

@dembipor Жыл бұрын

What happens if CBC is defunded and stops stealing taxpayers money ?

@apextroll Жыл бұрын

Nothing. You will continue to cry about your horrible life.

@thezenfarmer Жыл бұрын

Anyone following the science behind the magnetic reversal and recurrent micronova?

@NordeggSonya Жыл бұрын

Eyes open no fear be safe everyone, yes Suspicious 0bservers know about this.

@nativespiritindian8278 4 ай бұрын

day after tomorrow. we warned you all now red kachina comes again.

@canadaclub8920 Жыл бұрын

Canfield Ocean risk

@sotonpo Жыл бұрын

Sad News

@mwagicalpwush Жыл бұрын

boo

@giftedfooljjhg1981thepasmb Жыл бұрын

Doom

@sotonpo Жыл бұрын

😢

@talpark8796 Жыл бұрын

😂

@sotonpo Жыл бұрын

😢😢😢

@kennethsnyder9236 11 ай бұрын

Oh, I don’t know? What do you do when your moon is gone? Boy oh boy what do we do? “We’re all doomed, what are we going to do “? I am going on a limb and say we better get out on the water and start splashing around. The fish need aeration.

@showme360 Ай бұрын

Stop Burning stuff, thats what you do!

@amyntazoe9831 Жыл бұрын

And there's a war going on,. Where are all the environmentalists at.

@sotonpo Жыл бұрын

😢😢

@BobbyBiff Жыл бұрын

Cbc has gone to heck in a hand basket, I'm losing all hope for them

@cindyhaduik7171 Жыл бұрын

Yea , we'll show you a grade 7 experiment ... Everyone panic !!!! 🙄

@heleenotto329 Жыл бұрын

Yes of de circulation stop....than you get cool EARTH..

@ninemoonplanet Жыл бұрын

Unfortunately that's exactly the opposite of what's going on. Permafrost is melting, forest fires are far worse, more frequent, because of the heating of both the atmosphere and oceans.

@sotonpo Жыл бұрын

😢😢😢😢

@rodneypantony3551 Жыл бұрын

Citing ChatGPT re Bronze Age

@joelmcneney5366 Жыл бұрын

We want you : Scared, broke and compliant.

@Jen-e-sis Жыл бұрын

It’s already been prophesied to happen and the four winds will be held back.

@jsEMCsquared Жыл бұрын

It is going to collapse. Period. . Edit, its going to happen within 5 years! David bowie "that's all we've got"

@jonfklein Жыл бұрын

Scare-monger.

@CHIEF_420 Жыл бұрын

🤡⌚️

@bobleclair5665 Ай бұрын

The planet pretty much regulates itself

@willy4571 Жыл бұрын

The ocean currants have something to do with the earths rotation, ozone layers and gravity. Just my opinion. 3:30

@ninemoonplanet Жыл бұрын

Partially right, but those forces are much weaker, smaller than the AMOC. Unfortunately the amount of CO2 absorbed around the world in the oceans is heating up the polar ice, Arctic and Subarctic.

@justbecauseOK Жыл бұрын

Offering an opinion is like pissing in the wind as a wildfire consumes your community and reduces it to ash.

@showme360 Ай бұрын

Wow you have such an over welling wealth of knowledge!

@Steelblood27 Жыл бұрын

Pollution is bad, and warming is bad yes. But the earth has existed for much much longer than we have, and I feel we risk over estimating our own impact, and knowledge. Since we existed humanity has had to deal with natural disasters out of our control. We still do when it comes to tsunami's and earthquakes. This whole debate is essentially our argument that WE are now the ones causing the random chaos of earth's nature. Ultimately the earth has always been a dynamic system. Our cities and infrastructure is largely designed and based on the assumption of fixed conditions. When those "fixed" conditions change, that's where technology and old designs need to be adapted. Whether we are impacting the rate of that change or not, we still need to innovate. There will always be a limit to how much we influence the planet. We are quick to forget that we are the passengers on earth, but not the ones in the driver seat.

@john15008 Жыл бұрын

Humankind has hijacked this natural process. Humanity has never had to cope with changes, at this rate, with a population of close to 7.9 billion.

@showme360 Ай бұрын

Quite right, but for the fact that our technologies have allowed us to remain fix in one place, creating cultures, and beliefs in one social segment on all the continents, so leading to countries. The great US of A will have to move to Canada to escape the heat, are you ready for the great migration? Is anyone planning this migration like in the movie 2011. I fear NOT!!

@Steelblood27 Ай бұрын

@@showme360 🤨huh

@Dragonfly_vbz Жыл бұрын

Please tell her she is lovely, but the pauses in her speech to make points are too much. Ugh. 😮 otherwise, it is very informative, but that speech pattern is unnecessary.

@theguess7 Жыл бұрын

Amazing how advocacy journalism is indistinguishable from propaganda.

@vrisket771 Жыл бұрын

you could argue any kind of persuasive material meant to change mindsets and raise awareness is propaganda in the truest sense of the word. propaganda isn't always bad, it sure is effective at raising awareness both good-natured and nefarious

@theguess7 Жыл бұрын

@@vrisket771 Wow. Never thought I would see the day when someone would advocate for propaganda! This sure is a brave new world we live in.

@vrisket771 Жыл бұрын

@@theguess7 Clearly you're not able to separate the connotation of the word from the actual meaning.

@adelelavoie515 7 ай бұрын

I’m curious what motivation scientists would have to use “propaganda “ to convince us that there’s a problem with the earth’s balance? Because I can clearly see the motivation for pushing *denial*of climate change ($$$ greed, laziness to act, “I want what I want and I want it now” no matter the consequence)

@adelelavoie515 7 ай бұрын

@troyzieman7177 Жыл бұрын

So when you start your " news" clip with an overly dramatic movie clip from a non relevant to the topic movie .I know we have moved from news to entertainment . This report of the AMOC collapsing is not considered the finished science on this topic . It is one viewpoint with many detractors. I live in Ontario , my view of the weather we have received this summer as damn near perfect. Lots of hot weather, with plenty of rain am I too now conclude that Climate change is good ? No , of course not . I will consider that not all the effects from it will be neccesarily negative. Where you live will matter . Science does not take a single report , study , ect and declare definitive conclusions , but CBC found a report that fit its narrative and presented it as fact . The climate that needs to change is public funding to the CBC....

@felixthecat2786 Жыл бұрын

Why don't they just allow scientists to explain how this works instead of the pretty blond report who says "like" and "Um" 70 times.

@raedaltaee7358 Жыл бұрын

طاب يومكم اعزائي الملائكة والسلام عليكم السماح للملائكة بزراعة الحنطة والشعير والرز والبقوليات وجميع الفواكه والخضراوات بما يكفي عدد المستهلكين له في الجنة . تمت الموافقة عليها من قبل ( اللّه والرب والخالق) رسول ومستشار الخالق رائد الطائي

@CHIEF_420 Жыл бұрын

🙈⌚️

@davidhudson5452 Жыл бұрын

When it happens will to deal with it 2 ice ages we did not cause it this is normal

@ninemoonplanet Жыл бұрын

Wishful thinking. The amount of methane, CO2 is going to make Canada a drought zone, forest fires hotter, more frequent and tornadoes much more frequent and powerful. Nobody is safe from these effects, even the rainforest zones.

@johndoe-ko8nu Жыл бұрын

nice orange prison uniform

@johndoe-ko8nu Жыл бұрын

This is a JOKE!!!

@johndoe-ko8nu Жыл бұрын

More propaganda!!!! SCARE TACTICS!!!!

@sireorcry Жыл бұрын

Propaganda for what?! Prove that fossil fuels DON'T harm the climate.

@johndoe-ko8nu Жыл бұрын

@@sireorcry C02 promotes plant life all plants consume C02 and give oxygen at night !! Do you breath Oxygen??

@justbecauseOK Жыл бұрын

@@sireorcry he cannot and will not. These people are lost causes.

@michaelsmomenton Жыл бұрын

Prppaganda

@mikesrdtrukr Жыл бұрын

Blah blah blah..... There sure is a lot of "possibly" , "might" and "if" words going around in the vid. We need more taxes! Lots and lots of taxes! And more boards, and committees and science..... Yeah. That outta fix it. 🥱

@showme360 Ай бұрын

What your referring to is tweaking! The basic understanding of the changing climate is fix. Its going to happen!! Get ready for the mass migration of Americans heading north!