The Gulf Stream blocked

Don’t Look Now, but, – Cold Mystery Blob Blocking Gulf Stream

Denial Crock of the Week,

25 November, 2014

In the movie, “The Day After Tomorrow”, warm water from the Gulf Stream get’s shut off in a perverse impact of global warming, leading to worldwide catastrophe.

No in is predicting that – at all. But, there is this weird thing in the North Atlantic right now…

(you’ll have to fullscreen it to see the action)

Below, the 2004 movie “The Day After Tomorrow” took a North Atlantic shutdown as a trigger for global disaster. In this clip, they get a lot wrong, including the backwards circulation of the ocean currents – and science does not consider this scenario very probable any time soon. Still, a mystery unfolding.  A well known oceanographer writes me, “The current big blue blob has been there since mid-2013 if you look at the monthly GISS anomalies, but it is a much longer-term feature also shown in the AR4 and AR5 global temperature trend map.”

I’m told there is some probably-not-quite-so-dramatic science in the publication pipeline on this.