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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Which is it, climate change or are we back to global warming?
“Climate is what you expect. Weather is what you get.” - Robert Heinlein..................
Yes, I am so dead tired of dying from global climate change. I wonder why anyone is still alive?
In the year 2525, if man is still alive, they will still be warning about climate change, because climate change never stops.
Do you know of whom you speak? He used His word, speaking all things into existence. Including you.
I read a novel decades ago about a mad man planning to blow up underwater cliffs and allow the Gulf Stream to go into the Arctic and melt the glaciers causing GLOBAL FLOODING.
Don’t remember the name.
Ice! by Arnold Federbush........................
And I’m sure a small group of experts from prestigious taxpayer funded universities have concluded that the only way to stave-off sudden guaranteed catastrophe is reversing USID DOGE cuts, more free multifamily housing, and importing an additional 30 million undocumented “workers” from southern lattitudes and the middlw east to balance the world’s economic and spiritual Karma.
that ought to fix it! (could get an A+ at Harvard with that as my dissertation)
Einstein: But but, Zat is not Zience! Ver ist da experimentz?
Milankovich: Da! Komrade, dey forgets duh vibble vobbel off da orbitzelz round da Zohne.
Can't we just do it the old fashioned way and throw a virgin into a volcano? Greta would do. Surely that will please the climate change god!
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
H. L. Mencken
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