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- Published on Feb 12, 2026
- Deep beneath the waves, a powerful yet invisible system has been silently regulating life on Earth for thousands of years. It's rarely talked about, barely understood by most, and yet its sudden collapse could reshape the world as we know it.
Why is it weakening now? What happens if it stops altogether? And how could something so critical remain hidden for so long?
Find out in this video.
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References:
“What is the AMOC?”, via noaa.gov bit.ly/amocinfo
“Physics-based early warning signal shows that AMOC is on tipping course”, via science.org bit.ly/vanwest...
“Models show North Atlantic cooling driven by atmospheric processes”, via climate.gov bit.ly/coldblob
“Chapter 9: Ocean, Cryosphere and Sea Level Change”, via ipcc.ch bit.ly/ipcc9
“Open Letter by Climate Scientists to the Nordic Council of Ministers”, via helsinki.fi bit.ly/nordicc...
“Warning of a forthcoming collapse of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation”, via nature.com bit.ly/ditlevs...
“Thermohaline Circulation”, via noaa.gov bit.ly/thermo-...
“Identifying a human signal in the North Atlantic warming hole”, via nature.com bit.ly/chemkeetal
“Past and future response of the North Atlantic warming hole to anthropogenic forcing”, via copernicus.org bit.ly/qasmisaid
“Ocean circulation and climate during the past 120,000 years”, via nature.com bit.ly/rahmsto...
“Probability Estimates of a 21st Century AMOC Collapse”, via arxiv.org bit.ly/smolder...
“RAPID 26°N array”, via rapid.ac.uk bit.ly/rapid-p...
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Credits
Narrator: James Stewart
Producer: Alex McColgan
Writer: James Stewart
Video Editor: Celal Kaçar
Researcher: Edie Abrahams
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Senior Production Coordinator: Jana Pšenková
Channel Manager: Georgina Brenner
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Congratulations on the launch!
We need a mathematics video from veritasium
Collab? 👀
Great Work, guys
Thank you very very much for yours masterpieces.
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It makes lifes better
Humans are not causing the changing of climb ate
Masterpiece!
to-do list:
- buy eggs, milk, toilet paper
- prevent amoc from slowing down
- pick up kids from school
- paint a picture like B.Ross or van Gogh
yes
ha ha
Thank you for that, God bless
Compose Beethoven’s 10th symphony
- buy Saharan real estate
I have almost done the item 1 at Costco. If I m finished before I die, I will feel quite accomplished.
I love that Astrum vids are actually narrated by a real person. Makes for much more interesting and entertaining viewing. Thank you!
I’ve stopped watching the ai narrated vids of other creators. It’s just too much uncanny valley.
@MAX96MENDES lol how do you know
Here Here ! I have now got to the point where, if I detect an AI narration, I click out.
Says otherwise in the channel description but ok.@MAX96MENDES
It's sad to think that there is a 50%+ chance that half the people in this comment thread are AI,.as well as the OP and also the narrator. The Internet sucks now.
I am 74 years old and I remember reading an essay about exactly what you are describing in my literature book in middle school. It was part of the possible reasons for an ice age... So this did NOT sneak up on us. As usual, we were concentrating on the problems faced by popular singing or sports idols...
So for more than 65 years the predictions have been wrong. All the predictions about sea water rising, all the dates that have come and gone. The only real climate change that actually matters. The most dangerous and plainly visible climate change is spiritual. The evil is growing at an exponential rate. It began in the 60s'
Yeah I remember my dad explaining this to me thirty some odd years ago.
I remember 30 years ago, they taught us in school that global warming will melt the poles and the water rises 1cm per year. And in 2025 all pacific islands and parts of Florida will be gone, because they are reaching 30cm out of the water. Now, all the islands and Florida are still there and satellite data shows, the North pole Ice doesn't melt and the ice on the south pole is growing. So I don't believe any predictions anymore.
It's funny how the politically motivated climate alarmists are always flipping the narrative and moving the goalposts in their effort to blame every change in the climate system on anthropogenic causes. AMOC caused the ICE ages, now it will cause the planet to burn up. Dozens of other far more powerful forces are at work as we know, but if they acknowledged all of those, they couldn't cry "doomsday" and seek public funding for their never ending chameleon research, which ever changes to fit the facts, but with one variable always the same: blame the human transgressors so you can make them pay financial penance--to the climate alarmists, of course.
We're focusing on letting politicians become celebrities with massive egos who cause armed conflicts and make decisions on a whim instead of doing their job (managing the place within borders that we have no choice but to depend on to survive) .
in 1862 the Scottish self taught geologist, James Croll, speculated on this exact issue. Its in his published papers. He also speculated on the causes of Ice Ages being caused by the synchronism of the earths orbit elliptical changes , the precession of the ecliptic,and the "nodding " of the earths axis of spin.....80 years before MIlankovich.
We should not forget that the magnetic pole shifting has radically sped up during the last couple of decades.
I live in very north Scotland, will let you all know if an Iceberg lands on the beach lol. But in all seriousness Alan is correct and James Croll's papers are a good read if you haven't yet, very smart man of those times for sure
@nofreewill42 Realy glad someone is awake. The combination of the orbital ellipse and nodding factors, with solar activity, magnetic pole fluctuations reducing our magnetic forcefield and exposing us to higher levels of solar and cosmic radiation, the extra adgetation this causes to the ionosphere and rogue weather patterns this forms, and the extra volcanic activity, mostly underwater where it's difficult to observe, are all factors that would very well explain large amounts of the warming and weather anomalies we are seeing.
We constantly see news articles about being able to see the aurora borealis at crazy locations, but nobody asks what this massive energy burst to the ionosphere is doing below it.
The electricity used, and heat generated by all the Ai data farms is going to be what really ends us all. Computers put out pretty much 95% of their power consumption as heat, which requires massive evaporative cooling systems which both heat the local rivers, and dump out a heavily salinated soup of other particulates and anti-microbial chemicals, damaging local biospheres. This, coupled with the fact that 60% of the power is from burning fossil fuels, and that the new large scale centres are aiming for 150 meggawatt consumption per facility, the green movement is being seriously craped on!! Not to mention all the carbon emmissions and other polution from building these centres!!
Milkovich obviously built on that and believed it himself about the various orbital conditions that could affect us. He was the one that figured out the math though; so he gets the credit.
@dasbruce5337 So cool. I just live in one of the schemes in the lowlands. Ah well hiya far neighbour 🥰🏴
Just off the top of my head, to say that "the AMOC transports 50 times all the energy that humanity uses" is vastly understated. The earth receives from the sun in just 40 minutes of any day the equivalent of all the energy we use in a year.
And if I recall correctly, this is one-quadrillionth of the sun's output. I do not recall the hydrogen conversion, I think it is about 2 tons per second, and the sun goes through cycles of shrinkage and expansion, perhaps hundreds of feet diameter at times. Someone should reply with correct figures, thanks.
@YouKnowTheyExist all of those numbers are already incomprehensible, so i'm excited to not understand a single thing in any reply you may get to this
@HaroldsArtArchive basically we are wasting potential just to make oil companies rich.
@runnergo1398 you may be, but i am actively trying to change my local world by rewilding my urban property going against all the cuck regulations :)
@runnergo1398 that's the nub of it. Killing ourselves through greed. We don't even have ignorance as an excuse anymore.
Damn, in the Netherlands I was preparing my garden for a warmer climate and water shortages, by planting mediterrean plants/trees. Guess I have to start planting Norwegian pine trees and choose a spot for an igloo.
Not to mention the Igloo in the garden ….
I, in Belgium wouldn’t mind if it gets 10° C colder in winter. Nature is disoriented with only a few days of night frost.
As a kid (from 1959), we mostly got a lot of snow and frozen smaller rivers and lakes.
And you in the Netherlands had your Elfstedentocht.
I am from the north of Italy and we had winters at -25°C until the '80. It was normal to have show in winter, now it's like being warm year around, so much so I can have olive trees in the garden. Before 1990 it was impossibile 😂
Same here . Just spent the last year drought proofing my allotments
Wees versigtig om uitheemse plante te plant want dit kan die inheemse plante uitkompeteer en die ecologie beskadig.
22:05 Uh... I am North Norwegian and you absolutely can grow potatoes here. In fact Northern Norway is not nearly as cold as you would think... at least until the AMOC collapses. Large parts of its coast have a temperate climate.
Do the glaciers in Norway retreat or do they increase their sizes?? Nobody talks about it . Glaciers are the best way to see if it warms up or if it cools down .
@nicolasbuzzbuzz1079 My family originates from a fjord with an arm of the greatest glacier in my part of the country and it has quite consistently been on the retreat the past century. From this video it sounds like I might live to see it restored to its old glory, though.
@holandreas Hei, jeg er ganske interessert i å forske på dette her. Hvilken isbre er det du snakker om? Takk
@jackjenner9501 Svartisens brearm i Holandsfjorden
I lived in Alta for 3 months and yes, the climate was way warmer than what I expected. I also lived in a remote part of Siberia... Now that was crazy cold
'It'd be like growing potatoes in Northern Norway, it just wouldn't work'. Yes it would, and it does. Potatoes are grown in Northern Norway. The growing period is 90-120 days which is long enough for several varieties of potatoes.
Climate alarmists have no idea how the world actually works.
Does he know that a lot of the world records for largest vegetables are grown in Alaska?
@chrisgunther109In greenhouses presumably. Don't they feed them carbon dioxide?
Canada, too. We grow potatoes all over the country. 🤷🏻♀️
@LecherousLizard I suppose we should leave it to the laymen then, I'm sure they know everything about everything.
Welcome to Astrum Earth! Hope you're enjoying our first video, let us know what you think! 🌍
Don't forget to remind people to like the video. If the algorithm sees a video getting a bunch of likes when it goes live, it'll promote the video moreso than it would've done otherwise.
Long time fan of all the astrum videos, I’ve watched every single video! Great video, very informative and well written, only I think alex is such a great narrator, and his soothing pace and voice is such a part of astrum video’s identity and better suited. Very excited to hear more though! Thank you for your great work
Very nice launch. Same Astrum vibe, and same detailed analysis I expect from the Astrum brand.
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It’s awesome 👏
As someone who lives in Europe when I first heard about this I was more scared than when I heard that the sun would die in a few billion years.
Yeah, because this is more current, similar to Yellowstone Erupting, which is due to happen any year now.
If this is inevitable, then just live life to the fullest you can, without anyone stopping you.
@tobiasa9071 Yellowstone is always erupting any year now,the way fusion is always 20 years away
@FüTyibi Lets not for get about the "Big One" (earthquake) hitting the West Coast of the US.
@tobiasa9071 That only seems to work for secularists though, and kinda proves how selfish people can be when they no longer have their long-term interests to think about. To be fair though, it's different when it's not just their own end, but basically everyone else's, but Christians still have the afterlife to think about. They see it as a test to reveal their nature. My life really wouldn't change much outside of changes absolutely necessary for survival or to increase chances of survival as much as possible, without compromising on principals.
The comparison is wildly different. One is imminent and the other, well, isn’t.
Welp, we had a good run guys.
See you on the other side.
no we did not
Yeah, too bad we stupidly screwed the kids and grandkids doing it.
I shared this video with my former college Professor.
She’s watching it now.
I had forgotten about the effects of the lack of salinity in the ocean.
She has been saying what this video is saying for many years. It’s been many years since I took her classes in geography and oceanography. But she knew what was going on back then.
Our world is not static. It’s evolving and alive. This is showing just that.
Thank you for the great video!! And congrats on the new page that I just found! ✌️
Everybody knows, nobody cares
Mother Earth and Father God will take care of everything, don't be afraid.
@Squidgy55 Yeah but it might (if mankind is very lucky) take 1000 years, if nature does reboot it. Remember, it may not reboot. Isn't it easier to do something about this ourselves now, like reducing emissions (we should have started 30 or 40 years ago!).
@Squidgy55 Humanity will not feature for much longer. But the planet will survive and thrive without the virus called humanity.
@WomBatVIC CO2 follows temp changes not causes them. This is well known. Thats why the CO2 emission stuff has had no effect
This is the second-best channel on all of RUclips!
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I'm honored to be one of your first 10k subscribers mate. Looking forward to all that comes to follow 🎉
I remember back in 1963 that there was a fear of another ice age.
Why is there any fear of natural phenomena ?
Great video!
As someone from the North of Norway however, I will have you know that we do grow potatoes here, along with other fruits and vegetables. Mostly root plants, but also quite a few berries, plums, rubarb and more
Norwegian here aswell. I think he was talking about the future potatoprodction, can get difficult if it gets colder. Personally i don't eat much potatoes, so i could just grow what i need of them in big buckets indoor 😅, saving money on potplants 😂
@Lisbethalso Yes, they will rot if frozen (depending on the freeze temperature and how deep the frost has entered in the ground). And when you have to harvest them too early, it is not worth it.
Well the government had to tax Potatoes so hopefully they can undo that while at it. 😅Take a break from the climate talk
As a space enthusiast, I'm coming here from Astrum main channel. I'm very happy I checked the new channel out! This is an interesting topic
Check out the pole shift at noaa.😉
A fantastic first video. Excited for what's next!
CG Scare cult has several objectives. One of which is to hide the true cause of the upcoming disasters so that us plebs do not prepare accordingly. We will be running around, depopulating ourselves, impoverishing ourselves and wasting our efforts on stopping cows farting rather than save ourselves. They are truly evil
Woooah my Sub'd channels are colliding 😂
What are u doing here bro
@Zhiinuya same
Do you support the corrupt mafia building wind turbines and solar panels??
We were here 10000 years ago...
The humans at that time actually survived the last ice age.
And many before it.
At the price of the entire civilization.
@LecherousLizard
civilizations werent a thing yet 10k years ago and before.
thats the time were farming was just invented and the building up of civilizations took another few thousand years.
@uteriel282Gobekli Tepe is from 10,000 years ago.
Also 12,500 years ago a cataclysmic flood had levelled most of Europe, a good chunk of North America and entire Sahara region and the salt from that is still present in calderas of volcanic mountains in Africa. The sea levels are some 120m higher today than they were prior to that.
You really think any civilization in those regions would've survived?
Nothing we made in modern times would've lasted a tenth of that time.
@LecherousLizard Look up how long a bar of aluminum takes to degrade.
How ironic. I live in Norway. One of the few places who could want some warmer weather. Looks like the polar bears will be entering our kingdom once more.
Norwegistan ☪️👳🏿♂️🧕🏿🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🍆
I fear Norway will at least partially be uninhabitable.
@SDG-trca Lapland in all Nordic countries probably would, maybe even half of Norway and Finland, unless it would stay at the lower edge of the predicted change.
I'm a neighbour Swede, and I feel much the same. 😟
Out of the gate with a banger. Well done, guys.
So we are all gonna die?:))
@johndconstantineYes,we're all doomed !? 😅
@charliehayward2512leaving the jokes aside, let’s pray for the ones who will, I was more like half/half on the joke to be honest😅
AMOC is running amok.
Amoc is about to go coma
Nyuck nyuck nyuck.
The only ones running amok is the *cancer, known as the humsn species,* which is *NO LAUGHING MATTER,* you nasty little jerk.
Good one!
Dad jokes for the win
world when it's my time to be an adult:
AMOC: i will wrek u earth 🌍
Pole Shift: hold my beer 🍺
Me: i will eat you and survive
Nobody ever talks about what weather changes will be caused, are being caused by a pole shift. I guess they haven't figured out how to blame that on humans yet.
EMP: Navigate with a sextant & read books ⛵
@snorfallupagus6014did you think it said polar bear?
And both are predicted, based on ongoing studies, to take place before the end of this century, with a high probability before 2050.
More Astrum? Absolutely!
4:07 "previous ice ages" now, that's where you sold it. People don't realise that deep fact. Antarctica will reveal a lot. Maybe that's what they want. Ignorance.
In a new ice age, surely sea levels will fall, not rise by 70cm
AMOC collapse does not mean a new ice age. As the video quite clearly says, this is about regional averages changing. Colder temperatures in specific parts of Northern Europe (more akin to Canada: take a look at a map and compare the latitude of London and Calgary!), but significantly warmer across the globe overall, meaning that sea levels will still rise.
Does anyone else think that the picture at 1:51 looks like Van Gogh's Starry Night?🙂
Yes 😂
I was thinking the same indeed!
Van Gogh predicted all this, you know?
Too much Absinth can do that to you.
Now that you mention it, it does.
O god, don't tell me the summers here in ireland are going to get even colder now.
Cold summers? How much are flight tickets-sign me up!
Im sick of 110 degree summers
*edit: fahrenheit
No, just wetter...
You mean the two weeks of relatively warm sunshine we get every year? 😂😂😂
Its; confusing becasue the models he used show Ireland may suddenly get temperature and snow fall like Russia but the West side of every continent is warm like Western Africa, Chile in South America, and NW US and Canada, Seattle and Vancouver BC in winter only get 10cm of snow but over the mountains Spokane WA gets 100cm of snow so that is 10x more snow. I assume Ireland won't get that cold like Russia simply becasue if AMOC is gone, now west to east systems will develop and bringing in rain and rain keeps temperature higher as rain produces energy when rain falls = warmer weather when the region would otherwise be much colder. So I think Ireland would see rainy wet warm winter like today not much snow like today so no change??? I am Confused by their models
These Climate models always prove false and contradictory
I taught middle school earth science. I recorded a Discovery Channel video on VHS tape that taught this and showed it every year. To me it was most important to teach. And now we see it happening before our eyes. Thank you for educating more people.
How long ago was that?
@lesath7883 I think I recorded it in the late nineties. I taught earth science from 2003 to 2008.
@rosiemckinney1061 Thank you.
This was taught in my school in the early nineties. It was very matter of fact.
@marnoch4632 that's awesome that you were taught this.
We are somewhat puzzled by the constant interference of the 'background' music with the speaker's message. Do we need such mindless doodling? Why not offer the option to cut out the music and leave the voice intact?
I can't hear if theres background music. So it's a struggle to watch this
Same, background is too loud and weird choice. Narrating is well done. I always use subtitles with all videos. Even the ones in my own language.
Boy what a topic to launch with! Absolutely fascinating and eye opening; thank you for making this
I have done some research on this topic. Increased freshwater from melting ice will dilute the ocean's salinity and slow the AMOC, resulting in much colder northern weather and warmer tropical areas. Thank you for opening up this topic.
So if ice melts it freezes again.......
@baneverything5580 yeah. but the situation will be extreme.
@fullnodeyt There have been at least 75 extremely rapid global temperature changes in the past 15,000 years. See Little Ice Age, Medieval Warm Period, Younger Dryas, Year Without A Summer & 536 AD for starters.
@baneverything5580Melting into SALT WATER? 😂
@baneverything5580yes, and the coming one will be much worse than all of those.
22:08 I'm from northern Norway, and I can tell you that we grow LOTS of potatoes, as well as other vegetables, and a few different fruits too, especially strawberries.
I'm from southern Australia (closer to Antarctica than the rest of the continent apart from Tasmania) and I can tell you we have an alpine range and indeed one of the longest mountain ranges in the world, and it's tedious when everyone imagines the entire continent (that word again) is a tropical beach.
I even met an American from Colorado and he only packed a suitcase of Hawaiian shirts and he arrived in WINTER in the national capital, Canberra which is 1,000 metres above sea level and the surrounding hills are often snow capped. It sometimes snows in Canberra. This guy. An otherwise educated person here to work on a Masters degree in anthropology and he hadn't the slightest curiosity about what the actual geography and climate is of Australia. I was staggered but at least he had the good grace to make fun of himself.
I mentioned the alpine region in a zoom call to mostly Americans the other day and they found the idea absurd, they just couldn't compute and thought I was winding them up.
Ben bir Coğrafyacıyım. Bunun gibi alanımla alakalı binlerce video izledim. Söylemem gerekir ki şimdiye kadar izlediğim Coğrafya ile alakalı en detaylı ama sıkıcı olmayan en güzel animasyonlara grafiklere ve gerçek çekimlere sahip videoydu. İnanıyorumki okullarda dersler ve videoları bu kalitede işlenirse herkes herşeyi çok güzel şekilde öğrenecektir. Emekleriniz tekrardan tebrik ediyorum Muazzam bir videoydu. Düşününki ben çalışmaları kolay beğenen birisi değilim detaycıyımdır ancak bu videonuz muhteşem bir kaliteydi. Çalışmalarınızın en az bu kalitede müthiş bir şekilde devam etmesini ve paylaşmanızı destekliyorum. Herkesin bunu ve bu kalitede içerikleri örnek alması gerekiyor. Özelliklede üniversiteler sıkıcı gereksiz detaylara sahip teori denilen çoğu ispatlanmamış ezberlerden oluşan ders tiplerinden kurtulup, dersleri işte böyle gerçek hayatla alakalı ve akılda kalıcı net ve temiz bir şekilde kesinlikle böyle öğretici şekilde yapmalılar. Bu bir seçenek olmamalı, kesinlikle bir zorunluluk olmalı. Devletler derslerin bu şekilde işlenmelerini zorunlu şekilde sağlamalılar ki daha bilinçli bir insanlık yetişebilsin.
Congratulations! This was marvelous! Far beyond my expectation. I didn't think anyone could present science topics with the confidence, passion, enthusiasm, and clarity, as well as Alex, but you've come very close on your maiden voyage! Alex, Derek at Veritasium, and you, give me hope for the future.
cool worlds as well!
So nice. Just about the time I should be shuffling off this mortal coil things will likely get *really* bad. Sucks for you guys!
Well, I'm far older so I'll be checked out of this roach motel long before the SHTF. Lucky me!
I'm with you. But have you considered that you will probably be back? Right smack dab in the middle of it? Haha.
@philipzanoni Yes, Anton will be back, to learn what he hasn't in this life; tact, diplomacy and gaining insight! On top of that, he'lll be digging levees and fortresses around the lower lying regions like the Netherlands. It's going to be fun!
Question: The ice sheet over north America covered the entirety of Canada and 85% of the continental US at up too 2 miles in depth. Seems that melt run off would dwarf the current levels and it only slowed the Amoc?
Back then, the system was way different than what we know today. There's no way it wasn't.
Likely that melt is what settled us into the system we have today, but what people don't truly realize is how long of a timescale this happens over.
They get too caught up in the present. Arrogance of mankind and feeling self important. Blah blah.
The reality is, we are going through the tail end of an Ice Age, that began to end 20,000 years ago.
The earth has simply not settled, and is changing from then on. Our lifespan and recorded history is entirely too small to witness it on a grand scale.
Aka, it's going to get hot and tropical basically everywhere around the planet. Slowly, over the next several thousands of years.
Though it could be accelerated and or altered by things such as magnetic pole shift. Which is happening.
James Croll saw it long before anyone else. In 1862 a self taught Scottish geologist outlined the exact mechanism behind the Ice Ages. He wrote that the synchronised shifts in the earth orbit, the precession of the ecliptic and the slow nodding of the axis were the true drivers of climate cycles. He published it all eighty years before Milankovich and history barely credits him.
The thing with AMOC and its influence espescially on Europe is that it will be hard to tell which impact it will have on the climate because it will alter so many things and earth is continueing to warm up. The "ice age" will most likely not be as most imagine. We also don't know (models are too diverse) how ocean flow will continue afterwards and how weather patterns are going to react. Europe will also still receive western oceanic winds and has an insane amount of coastlines and water surrounding it which keeps it much warmer than people might think.
Plus it only has an effect on northern-west Europe. Not entire Europe.
As a science communicator and physicist myself I'm really impressed by the quality of this video. Hope to see more of this, so all the best!!
You're missing one important thing, and it’s making me frustrated. The AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation) is one part of the larger system that drives the Global Conveyor Belt. The Global Conveyor Belt involves several ocean currents, and the AMOC is a critical component, but it’s not the whole system. So that is what I am getting at, correct me if I am wrong.
You're right. The problem is that the effects on the GCB are even harder to estimate or predict. We can say with absolute certainty, however, that it will be FUBAR.
I agree but it seems to me he quite clearly stipulates in the title that he was going to talk about the AMOC.
When it comes to the geosciences, we cant stop to go into every interconnected topic. The videos would go on for the rest of our lives. A quick shout out is all you can expect, and hopefully a follow-up video on another regional current or a high level view of the GCB itself will be in the future.
@jackrice2770 Yeah, that's true, can't measure the whole globe. Pretty sad it's fouled, but even if or if not we hit the 2050 goal of zero carbon emissions, the damage might already be done.
@kaoskronostyche9939 The title is about AMOC, but it’s talked about like the whole system, which is misleading. A mention that it’s just one part would’ve helped.
I do have to say, listening to a real human with excellent diction and a well-written script, in a sea of AI slop, is truly refreshing.
Congratulations on the new channel. This was a brilliant doc.
Being a climate researcher, I knew in the 1980s about the balance between AMOC cooling and generalised planetary heating. At that time I had to decide where to live my life, and I chose England. With every bit of research, I know I'm right. This is the place where heating and cooling will balance each other out for a SHORT time, enough to see me off the planet. As global civilisation dies out, I won't be immune from crop failure and starvation, extreme storms, floods and heatwaves, and the rest, but I'm taking my chances here and hoping my natural life ends soon, before humanity dies out painfully and violently, as it will.
This is an excellent and accurate presentation - thanks and congratulations on your production!
Good onya. I’m doing the same in the PNW. As a conservation of natural resources undergrad at UC Berkeley in the late ‘70s some of my professors spoke about the AMOC and anthropogenic climate change. Humans have created the 6th mass extinction event. As long as we humans become extinct, Nature on Earth will have a billion or so years to speciate until our sun transforms into a red giant. Life will continue on other planets. This helps balance the impact of knowing just how much pain and suffering our species inflicts upon other species, wild and domestic. Take care, contribute in whatever way possible and enjoy life!
@stevecooper3510 100% with you there! It's good to hear from someone who is also in acceptance of the inevitable, that this is in effect the final mass extinction event, the most complete, which can only result in a billion years or so of Earth trying to speciate again.
Those of us who accept this are often in groups, working towards deep acceptance and equanimity in the face of our imminent end, and on the way supporting whoever and whatever we can.
I remember in the 70s, already well aware of the damage being done, saying often that what hurt most was the innocent animal species we were going to take with us. I hoped many would survive us and thrive without us. providing a basis for the remaining time until the sun seals Earth's fate, but in fact the extent of the species whose extinction we're causing is devastatingly comprehensive, leaving little time for complex life to form.
In any case, there's a vanishingly small chance of a long and stable climatic optimum such as the Holocene, which we ultimately squandered.
Wishing you the best in the PNW... I have friends seeing it out there, and others along the coast.
I've always thought that the human capacity for destruction will probably provide the immediate cause of my family's final minutes, particularly since we're personally as well insulated as possible against factors such as starvation, which will take out so many. The capacity for destructive behaviour is increasingly visible in recent years, and I know my American and Canadian family and friends, particularly those who are not in acceptance, are becoming jittery.
All I can hope for is a peaceful end, and I wish you the same.
What i gather from history despite everything that has happened, somehow people are still here.
@Emppu_T. What you COULD gather from history is that the death of species is much more common than survival, and there's nothing special about us except that we are apex predators, always the most vulnerable group.
Yes shame you picked a country going bankrupt though.
So, what were those blue blobs in the northern Pacific? There is a circulation there too, of course.
You weren't supposed to notice that, DOH!!!
@anthonydoyle7370 both of you were not listening and think you can succeed in winding us up. If you shut up then nobody will notice this about you.
@deborahcurtis1385 WTF you talking about, Karen? Try using properly constructed sentences.
I'm over eighty. We learned this in the Netherlands at the elementary school: probably 1955. I was thrilled by the name "Sagasso Sea" also because of the eel migration and the story of the glass eels and the eel fishery on the IJsselmeer where we lived.
We were told at the time that our climate could become similar to that of Labrador when the "Gulfstream" would stop.
We we had ice in winters: the most famous and popular Elfstedentocht.........gone today. Might come back.......
Wouldn't want our lovely Elfstedentocht to come back in this way...
It will cool Europe nobody knows to what extent. Certainly not like an Ice Age. Probably most scary is that it will change rainfall patterns disrupting agriculture. The results on the Eastern seaboard of the US are less clear.
@paxwallace8324 Thank you for the reminder of "disrupting agriculture" which I prefer to call "global crop failure" in hopes someone might notice!
But then people, like United Statesisns "Americans," have no problem with 95% of their meat supply coming from concentration camps for domesticated pets living short lives amid filth. disease, and death, eating food people could eat, which could offer TEN TIMES more food for vegetarians.
“No one knows how much Europe will cool. Except me, that is, since I know it will definitely NOT cool like an Ice Age.”
@noahj.1232 Don't you forget it
@markplimsollMeat industries are attempting to intervene and interfere with the development of non animal laboratory meat substitutes. Both of the plant based type and cellular types. But it's just a matter of time. All kinds of alternative protein sources must be utilized and soon including insect based foods.
@grannyweatherwaxe my data is from Climate Scientists Paul Beckwith, and Jim Hansen,. Paul Beckwith coined the term Blue Ocean Event.
I am so excited to be seeing this video from you Astrum, congratulations on a new channel!
My electric brother Ben over at space, weather news AK.A suspicious observer has been telling me about this for quite a few years.But I'm really happy to see someone else.Breaking up with this extremely important point and doing it quite the justice great video
Barefoot Ben?
Yup...we are in the same family...his Sun Series is what did it for me...😎🌠
Yep, it's unfortunate that this channel look like it's there to continue pushing the human-caused global warming scam!
Eyes open, no fear
The thing humanity is missing right now is accountability. Governments, nepotism corporations and the the ultra rich
The World Economic Forum - committed to improving the state of the world - is the international organization for public-private cooperation. 6:39
Improving the state of the world by achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and addressing climate change requires a massive financial investment, estimated between $5 trillion and $7 trillion per year globally through 2030, according to the World Bank.
Improving the state of the world by addressing climate change requires massive investment, but is significantly cheaper than the rising costs of inaction. Estimates suggest climate inaction could cost the world economy 12% in GDP for every 1°C of warming, with damages reaching roughly $38 trillion per year by 2050. Conversely, transitioning to a net-zero economy, while costly, is projected to increase global GDP by 7% by 2050, according to the UN.
Climate change is the long-term shift in average weather patterns across the world. 9:36
“Men argue. Nature acts.”
Quote attributed to Voltaire
My suggestion is to look more into the Earths Magnetic Pole Shifting and the changes in oxygen and electrostatic in atmosphere as this also effects the AMOK and ocean
Spot on.
How? How would electrostatics affect a body of water with a mostly neutral charge? That logically doesn't make any sense. I mean science isn't based on common sense but... And what about oxygen specifically in the atmopshere is changing? Is the ocean magnetic now? The magnetic field protects us from solar charged particles... What does that have to do with the ocean?
15:55 thank you for covering this bit - I've argued with quite a few Graham Hancock conspiracy theorists that his magical comet impact is unnecessary to explain the climate changes of the Younger Dryas - glad to see the Laurentian Ice sheet being talked about because it was a titanic event that explains a lot - we can still see the scars in the Pacific Northwest of the ice dams breaking and titanic glacial melt lakes flooding out into the pacific in 1 huge deluge that could easily be the source of all the religious 'great flood myths'
Well done and congratulations on the launch. I look forward to many more!
If the AMOC slows down when it's less salty, why don't we just tip some salt in it?
I've got a couple of spare sachets from Maccy-D's in the door pocket of my car for sure.
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Is that so, I wonder, but is that enough to accommodate it?
think about the massive amount of water out there. and youd have to put a lot of salt. Every year
Salt bae will have some serious work ahead
@tauwan0 yeah, but I wondered as well if that would be possible... theoretically it is, if you add enough salt to increase salinity... but how much would be needed and would we be able to provide that amount?
@tauwan0im thinking about that too. I think for every customer at mcdonalds lets make a law that that salt instead goes to the ocean. We can increase the health of people too because people will eat less salt.
When we eliminated heavy sulfur fuels for shipping traffic, the air cleared over the atlantic and sea surface temperatures went up dramatically..
Don't they still use masut in international waters, since no country can do anything about it? 🤔
@vask3863I saw ships bunkering with heavy oil to use in international waters. Been happening for years.
@ This is the standard practice. Once they are out of Economic zones, they use massut.
They still use high sulfur bunker fuel.
@sparkygump Don't undersea volcano's also also release a high sulfur residue?
What an excellent presentation of significant information! Great editing and pace. Looking forward to seeing more from this channel
I agree. But his info is full of error. Not true. Sorry pal.
It wouldn't stop though.
The Coriolis effect wouldn't let it.
Or have I misunderstood Physics?
Sunspots tides winds rain sun snow seasons winter...yaaaayaaaaa.🎉🎉🎉😊
So as far as I understand, this heat-cold cycle also extends to wind currents, not just water currents. If so, the wind industry in Europe would be severely affected and that raise a lot of questions. We are rushing to implent renewable energy production to avoid climate change like the slowing down of the AMOC, but at the same time, if the AMOC slows down anyways, we will be in deep shi... snow, as these sources of renewable energy will not be able to produce energy. That's some bold gambling, considering all the time and money invested to creating and changing energy infrastructure, take up to decades to do so. Time to consider nuclear energy
The wind that powers turbines is much stronger and more localised than anything related to transatlantic currents. AMOC/Gulf Stream: very big, but slow. Regional winds: highly localised, but much faster.
This was a fabulous video! Happy I caught it first day run
Been looking forward to this. Astrum’s production is top-notch.
Disagree. The addition of extraneous background noise is extremely enervating and annoying and I can’t watch this video.
Wow!
What a fantastic launch of the new Astrum channel.
The content and graphics in this first of many video's to come is mind blowing.
Being 62 this year I may just see the current ice age get colder as I am already seeing this happen.
Where I live in the western edge of Australia and the Indian Ocean we are no longer getting very hot days over 45c days in a row and summer is ending sooner by 40 days and winter is colder and drier than it has ever been.
Today 21st April it is 10c colder than it was 10 to 20 years ago. It seams we are skipping autumn altogether with temperatures of 31c and 18c overnight for this time of year is starting to get colder. The high of 31c will be very short with it peaking at 1pm and drop down to 23c by sundown. Yesterday we saw a daytime temp of 18c for 2 hours and night frost on my car this morning.
I have never seen this happen so early in the year.
its not of importance the eternal climatic cycles - it matters how parasiting minorities insist to manipulate guilt upon humanity - same trick made by religions for tousand years (remember - "you are born guilty, and you are small, unsignifficant and dirty"), same trick conducted by the last version of slaveowners - the socialistic organised group of criminal parasites. its psyop - inducing guilt makes people more tollerant to invasion and violence in personal areas of mind and matter. and yes, after recognizing the illnes there is found a cure - to learn recognizing the dirty old tricks with the conscious mind, contrary of their beloved move - moving aside consciousness, and injecting orders and behaviour right in the subsonscious mind, wich is innocent like a child, and accepts all as truth - no matter fact or illusionary description. so, its wide spread electronic book, not secret, and noot payed - free for copy and free to use. the name of this brain-immunisation is "the brainwashing manual". wish to You be healthy and live long, and spread the cure as much as You can, for many peoples good.
This is the UK calling: Can we have our summer weather back, please? 😁🫡
Thank you so much for the deep research and beautiful vizualisation that makes it understandable.
As someone who has studied geography and oceanography the the reduced power of the ocean currents is one of (if not) the scariest consequenses of climate change.
The man made climate hoax or the truth that climate have and will always change?
@grannyweatherwaxe it seems Trump is right all along indeed
you have any evidence of your own or just get spoonfed information from your books based on biased science?
I have a bizarre feeling that the volcanoes are linked to this process that we don't quite understand yet
Your wacky conspiracy theories do not negate what science says
You are correct! Volcanic unrest in glacial areas can cause a rapid increase in meltwater... Antarctica, for example, has, I think, over 30 volcanoes... and Mt Erebus recently became agitated...
In the opposite direction, large, volcanic eruptions can produce such significant quantities of sulfur dioxide and ash pumped high enough into the atmosphere to actually reduce the amount of sunlight reaching the earth. This can cause several consecutive years of much cooler temperatures, mini ice ages...
Humans have the ability to reduce the amount of carbon dioxide and methane >>we
Agreed
Salty water must way more in the crust i guess, than less salty water. Putting more pressure some places and less in others. I don't know, just a though i had from your comment.
Let's chuck out all the scientific study and embrace your bizarre feeling 😆
0:52 There are no units on the vertical axis of the graph.
That's because it's a simplified educational video, not a scientific paper. You can check the original sources if you're interested. There is no great conspiracy theory to be found here.
@jsbarrettoSuch fun!
There is no mention of how a global climate change will affect Asia. After all, most people are living in Asia.
Also where most coal plants on earth are located. Not that it matters
@Emppu_T.Yep. Per capita emissions is what matters. Not total.
Yay!!! Great job on the VO, James. Looking forward to more in the future.
Well done, thank you
Love this! Gorgeous and well executed.
01:00 Umm we were here 10,000 years ago too
It should be noted that it was only *after* the last ice-age that human agriculture kicked off. A stable climate is quite important for human flourishing.
@jsbarrettoI have to disagree with you. Nomads travel light and don't leave behind much stuff that lasts very long and don't do agriculture yet have a very robust culture and they almost conquered the entire world just 700 years ago. It's easy to project our modern ideas of civilization onto our ancestors but we've been creating beautiful art, structures, and stonework for tens of thousands of years before the first wheat seed was planted. Sure agriculture is absolutely necessary to OUR modern culture and civilization but it's not necessary FOR culture or civilization.
@Kuwaitisnot_adeploymentOh, for sure. I'm not dismissing it as a culturally interesting period in human history. I just don't want to live during such a period personally!
@jsbarrettoright on 💯
Congrats Astrum Earth! What a great 1st video! Cant wait for more new contents from this channel! 🎉
Congratulations on the launch! 🎉
What I have lived is for the last 50 years that I've been reading it is that we can't find anything or anyone that could or will fix the problems and issues due by governments or money or ego. Humanity unfortunately will have to collapse in order to make Humanity better.
I for one welcome the opportunity to live as an ice age hunter.
@robgrey6183 You will be long gone by then..
It's not the government's fault. A lot of the so called science from the far left is propaganda. This is to install specific politicians under the pretense that "the ocean will stop flowing if you don't vote for our guy". That guy will increase taxes and help billionaires and enact laws that restrict our freedom. That's what "climate change" is actually about. Sadly
We're actually facing collapse, and it has nothing to do with the climate worship nonsense.
@HyenaEmpyema Why would billionaires want to increase taxes...? Your reasoning is self-defeating on its own terms.
Thank you so much for all the wonderful videos. We really enjoy the work and the fact you use real footage as much as possible. Will become members!
I heard about this back in 2010 whilst sorting a solution for fixing water flow and temperature gauges to the floor of North Atlantic in the Grand Banks area, the scientist that I was dealing with told me mostly the same as the narrator, along with other strange facts, true we are in an interglacial period right now and we are starting to feel the effects of global warming, with some people saying that global warming will cancel out the next ice age.
Yes the decline of the Gulf Stream and the AMOC systems is taking place right now and yes humans have caused it as there is far more fresh water coming out of the North American continent and Greenland into the North Atlantic than before the industrial revolution, the collapse of AMOC would make the North Atlantic colder along with adjoining areas of land i.e. Greenland, Iceland and Northern Europe.
This cooling could actually be our life line as colder temperatures in the North American continent and Greenland would reduce the amount of fresh water entering the North Atlantic and therefore mitigate the doomsday scenario of another Ice Age,
There is a winner in the collapse of AMOC as they estimate that the gulf stream would flow across the mid atlantic and and bring wetter conditions to places like the Sahara Dessert which could turn that part of the world green and mitgate some of the loss of agriculture in Europe.
Here in the UK we could probably adapt to the conditions, myself I am now going to build a ski resort up on the high Pennine;s so that we can hold the Winter Olympics' come 2050-2054.
Excellent first episode! Looking forward to see more from this channel! Cheers!
Great!! Thanks a lot. I was searching for this type of content for long. As a student of environmental science, I found this really amazing and helpful❤ Keep going!!
who is the music in the background till 10 min? It's awesome...
Consider the pole shift and solar activity effect.
Yes, of course, Electric Universe and crust displacement pole shifts should be part of every curriculum, just like Flat Earth theory. Consider away!
That was excellent. I thoroughly enjoyed that. If that’s an example of what’s to come I can’t wait for more! Well done! And congratulations on the launch🎉
They've been talking about this for 40 years, I know off.
the swirls remind me of Van Goch's "Starry Night"...
29:40 that we know of.
I’m 71, and when I was at school, it was known as the Gulf Stream.
Listen to 6:13
It still is. AMOC is rarely used outside of more scientific contexts, the usual colloquial use is Gulf Stream.
Yea, they specifically mentioned that the gulf stream is a part of AMOC.
Try watching the video before commenting
Try to keep up ……. It’s now the Gulf of America Stream
A 95% level of confidence that the AMOC will shut down by 2095; Given this would essentially drop the northern hemisphere into a new ice age this would be the biggest hit to humanity ever.
Aside from the last ice age when they had zero tech?
Or we could move south?
Snowpeirceresque.
Technically we are still in an ice age, but I understand your point.
@PORTERHAUS_ I am aware and quite frankly the Roman warm period and medieval warm period were significantly warmer and I think we need to stop climate alarmism and stop screening out data that goes against the current narrative. Coming from a scientific background the biggest question I have is why are all climate models so far out compared to impirical data. Climate change is very real and we are a part of it but currently even if the earth achieved net zero tomorrow I do not see how warming will not continue as it has in the past. We are also now seeing positives from higher CO2 levels. Sustainability is the key not net zero in my thinking.
Du heter väl Hunanyan, inte Hananyan? I så fall är det felstavat på hemsidan som ger info om webinaret.
Congratulations on your launch!
This video should have made it clear that an AMOC shutdown wouldn’t trigger sudden global disasters like in The Day After Tomorrow. Instead of instant storms or an ice age, the effects would unfold gradually over decades - including regional cooling in Europe, sea level rise on the US East Coast, and shifts in rainfall patterns. The risks are real, but not apocalyptic in the short term.
Ill be real this all sounds pretty apocalyptic to me. Recently iv been looking into many different things and they all don't really point to anything good. If you look at the global warming predictions many places on earth are gonna be uninhabitable by humans by the year 2050 due to extreme heat that can combines with humidity to create deadly pockets of heat. Volcano's and fault lines are becoming more active. If its supposed to be that bad by 2050 what is 2100 gonna be like. I have a really bad feeling about all of this.
Global warming will cause global cooling.
This kind of schizophrenia is only possible in climatology, I swear.
@LecherousLizard Wait are you claiming its all made up? You aren't very smart are you? The earth has natural cycles of freezing and thawing. That is just a scientific fact. The planet has been through many ice ages and there is scientific proof for this. You even mention climatology which is the scientific field that specializes in that very study.
@billfred9411 Except that in this case the global warming basically doesn't happen before it switches to global cooling.
Like, AMOC's gonna stop in 10 or 20 years?
My brother in Christ, the climate models don't predict any observable change in trends of extreme weather events due to global warming until the end of the century.
@LecherousLizard Who said it was gonna happen in 10 to 20 years? You seem to be aware it happens and even mention the AMOC so what exactly do you even think is not true about it? I am just genuinely confused on what point you are even trying to make here. You started off by calling it akin to schizophrenia to believe such a thing then your second comment basically explains how it is a real thing so now I'm just confused as to what your point is.
the problem relying on models is they are totally unreliable , it is easy to adjust any model to get the result required
thats not their job though is it???
I doubt that any model in use is "totally unreliable."
@mottthehoople693 Except the IPCC was already revealed to be a political entity, not a scientific one. Actively looking to discredit and get people fired who disagree is literally anti-science.
Welp, time to take those trips through England and Scandinavia before they turn into glacier ice sheets!
How exciting 🎉🍀✨ I love how deep the video goes into the topic, and the presentation is great, too 💚💚
what you fail to look into is that there is a DIRECT correlation to the rise in temperature and the weakening of the earths magnetic field. who would have thought that MORE plasma hitting the earth would heat it up.
Ummmmm We were here 10,000 years ago as well. Give us some younger dryas impact content
A tiny fraction of us were here 10000 years ago. And we were virtually all hunter gatherers.
Add the collapse of the AMOC with the Beufort Gyre and we have a very fast weather change event...
There is a paradox in holding humans responsible for a phenomenon that occurred naturally before ...
Fire can occur naturally which doesn’t mean that humans are never responsible for starting a fire.
@frankboff1260 i bet you thought you had a real hitter there didnt ya? lmao
@pillznarRyHe is, in fact, completely correct
Please do explain the paradox. I would love to see how you came to this conclusion without seeing what's wrong with it
The phenomenon has been proven to occur naturally in a cyclical manner, but not proven to be caused by human. Now I’m not saying the later is impossible, but the argument is weak.
Many years ago, Scientific American had an article about this, and it appears to me that if the concentration of CO2 in our atmosphere hadn't increased above the level before the ice age started some 800,000 years ago, we might go into another glacial period, which would cause great hardship on our existence.
The concentration is double the highest natural amount we can record. We have offset an iceage but have gone way too far in the other direction to an unnatural extreme
@noahschwartz1222you realize during the ice age levels were about 200ppm, and if you go much lower than that plant photosynthesis shuts down. We are close to some of the lowest historical levels we know of. To say our current concentration is double the highest is absolutely willfully ignorant.
@noahschwartz1222 "we can record" huh?
These shots look INCREDIBLE can't wait to see more
I've tried to find information on if the ocean temperatures could trigger volcanoes to erupt However all I get is the opposite on searching and goes over volcanoes erupting causing temps to change in the ocean..