Posted on 10/09/2025 9:09:44 AM PDT by Red Badger
The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) is 100 times larger in volume than the Amazon River and wraps completely around the frozen South Pole continent of Antarctica
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Scientists are warning of a potential global environmental catastrophe as a colossal ocean current, five times stronger than the Gulf Stream, risks collapsing. The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC), which is 100 times larger in volume than the Amazon River, encircles the icy continent of Antarctica.
Similar to the Gulf Stream that brings warm water across the North Atlantic to the UK, the ACC plays a crucial role in influencing weather systems and climate globally. The Gulf Stream's warm waters flowing towards Britain are responsible for keeping the UK, and Europe, significantly warmer than other locations at the same latitude elsewhere in the world.
According to research on core samples extracted by the University of Bonn, the ACC is experiencing a slowdown in speed and power, operating at a pace three times slower than it was 130,000 years ago. The news emerges as rip current warning was issued for Florida beaches as swimmers told 'stay out of water'.
The Mail Online reports that the ACC is responsible for transporting cold and warm water currents, as well as dissolved carbon and nutrients between oceans worldwide.
Dr Michael Weber, the lead of the University of Bonn expedition, stated:
"The velocity in the second-to-last warm period, roughly 130,000 years ago, was more than three times greater than in the last millennia comprising the current warm period.", reports the Express.
Dr Bishakhdatta Gayen, an associate professor at the University of Melbourne, weighed in on the study, stating:
"If this current 'engine' breaks down, there could be severe consequences, including more climate variability, with greater extremes in certain regions.
"And accelerated global warming due to a reduction in the ocean's capacity to act as a carbon sink."
The ACC circulates water around the southern region of the Earth, distributing water and nutrients between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Indian Oceans.
Scientists from Bonn examined sediment samples gathered by a research vessel in the Scotia Sea, located north of the Antarctic continent.
Utilizing a supercomputer, researchers from the University of Melbourne modeled the impact of climate change on the ACC.
Alarmingly, they discovered that rising temperatures could reduce the flow by an additional 20% by 2050.
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We’re doomed.
Only complete government control over every aspect of human life can save us.
Computer models predict something in 2050..... Worthy of Maurice Strong.
Maurice Strong | The Godfather of WOKE
Too hot? Hook up YOUR solar panels to an AC.
Too cold? Hook up YOUR solar panels to a heater.
Don’t make me a tax slave or utility bill slave to the religion of Reverend Gore.
When you build and adjust computer models specifically to confirm your hypothesis, you will always succeed. In reality, they have absolutely no idea what ocean currents were doing 130,000 years ago at the peak of the last interglacial period, when global temps were about 10° F higher than now.
I kinda liked ‘The day before yesterday’. 🤔👍
Just surround antarctica w/double-sided windmills.
Wind blows turbines on top that spin submerged ones.
Last I heard they were all worried about it slowing down and stopping.
“”Brought to you by the same clowns who can’t even get the weather right two days out from now, and that eggs are terrible, ...”wait good, no terrible, no, no, wait....good but terrible...wait...”””
And yet, these same idiots think they’re so smart it’s scary. Especially since some of them, like Bill Gates, think they’re bright enough to tinker with the weather without screwing something “else” up. They’re not.
And what a TERRIFIC documentary that was!!!
A simple notion:
A paddle wheeler anchored in the current, off shore / rivers / streams.
A paddle wheel situated on each side of the vessel. The current rotates the paddle wheels’ and via gear-mechanism-connections drive electrical generators that are connected by cable to shore.
It is natural. Huricane, water style. God has a plan. Let it happen.
Keep holding in your fart though.
Something bad is going to happen someday but we MIGHT be able to tax our way out of it
Oh boy!
Another scientific ‘If THIS then maybe THAT’ warning!
Me luvs science!
I didn’t expect to laugh as hard as I did at that. Had to zoom in to read it, but LOL !
All I know is that the sun rose in the east this morning and I would presume it’s going to set in the west.
“If this continues, it could turn much of North Africa into a vast desert. Oh, wait . . . “
Zzzzzzzzzzzz
With my recent promotion to Captain, I’d offer this: Weather can change, can be unpredictable, and our ‘normal’ is temporary.
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