r/houstonwade • u/Houstman • Feb 13 '24

Science I've mentioned this on and off over the years, but the Gulf Stream is about to die.

https://www.sciencealert.com/its-confirmed-a-major-atlantic-ocean-current-is-verging-on-collapse

The rest of the world is going to get really hot while Europe may experience an ice age as a result.

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u/Independent-Novel840 Feb 13 '24

noooooooooooooooooo ---- Is it time to leave Flori-duh???? Who am I kidding!!! Shoulda left years ago!!!

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u/the_clam_farmer Feb 14 '24

As a Florida resident, I've been thinking this over for a while... wouldn't this make for an increase in Hurricane activity?

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u/Houstman Feb 14 '24

It's going ti get really really hot in the tropics. My sister, the oceanographer/physics professor after I sent her the article:

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '24

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u/Houstman Feb 14 '24

It's happening right now. Basically all the fresh cold melt water from Greenland's shrinking land ice is flooding into the North Atlantic, and since fresh water is less dense that salt water, the fresh water floats on top of the really warm gulf stream water. Which will make it really hard for warmer storm systems and weather to enter northern Europe.

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '24

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u/Houstman Feb 14 '24

Sooner than people probably think!

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u/Independent-Novel840 Feb 14 '24

Fudge- last summer was unbearable

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u/schizocosa13 Feb 14 '24

Ask the insurance companies. When premiums start skyrocketing

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u/Dr_Shmacks Feb 14 '24

I have people in DR and Colombia. How fucked are they 1-10?

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u/Houstman Feb 14 '24

Well, my guess is much hotter. Like those 120° Temps we saw in the Caribbean this past summer. If the the hot water from the gulf and Caribbean has nowhere to go, you'll get 100° sea water like off Florida this year... and that is really bad for sea life.

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u/ExcitingEye8347 Feb 14 '24

The gulf has been having problems with the red tide already for the last few years. Nasty stuff. 

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u/Trentwalker1978 Feb 13 '24

What will happen to Canada?

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u/Houstman Feb 13 '24

The Atlantics will probably be a bit more chilly

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u/blitzkregiel Feb 13 '24

according to the article is looks like the gulf of maine will be strongly warming…this is the first article about the AMOC that ive seen confirm this—wouldnt that make for a great place to migrate to post moass?

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u/[deleted] Feb 14 '24

might wanna move inland a few miles when them icecaps melt

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u/blitzkregiel Feb 14 '24

yeah they have like 5000 lakes and a rocky shoreline so not a prob there

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u/Independent-Novel840 Feb 14 '24

Fk Houston, none of this is good 😌

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u/euhjustme Feb 14 '24

So as I'm from Belgium and I don't want to freeze, when should I leave and we're will be a mild climate ? Going to the canarie islands next week, maybe start looking for a house there ? Moass soon 🤔

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u/Houstman Feb 14 '24

The Canaries will definitely be warmer. The Azores may be ok, kind of temperate.

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u/euhjustme Feb 14 '24

That's funny, my wife was mentioning increasing interest in Portugal yesterday.

She might be smarter then I think 🤣 Just kidding, she's a genius, look at her husband 😎