How Climate Change is Strangling our Oceans
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Climate change has our oceans in jeopardy. The Labrador Sea between Canada & Greenland is known as "the ocean's lung" but it's struggling to breathe due to the effects of global warming. Join Michael Aranda for a dive into this vital part of the ocean's ecosystem, and what we need to do to save it.
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@@barrydysert2974 Why does Sci Show make videos about this Topic
and not mention UpisnotJump and Hbomberguy, the Top-Dogs when it comes to
individual Cimate-Change-Videos, let alone Simon Clark, a guy who's specialized on it?
Do they not want their Fanbase to find scientific Entertainment of high Quality?
Propaganda for the left
Ah, there it is. The daily reminder that the world I live in is a bleak hellscape.
They're really driving this crap home. I'm not denying it's happening. Just that it's not our fault (or rather, we don't have much of an impact as the alarmists are claiming) and this is just a natural occurrence. Earth is "rebooting" itself basically. I mean hell, people used to think solar eclipses were a sign that gods are pissed at them.
Is about to become a bleak hellscape. Still looks okay now if you squint or if you're so old that squinting helps you see better
Or if you’re so old that you realize it doesn’t matter, because you won’t be alive to see the real hellscape.
@@jordanspencer2157 So why are all the people pushing this crap buying oceanside mansions? Won't they be under water soon? Hmmmm.
@@christianfournier6356 You don’t have children and grandchildren then?
Michael you're wonderful and eloquent and I hope you're doing well. 💚
Why does Sci Show make videos about this Topic
and not mention UpisnotJump and Hbomberguy, the Top-Dogs when it comes to
individual Cimate-Change-Videos, let alone Simon Clark, a guy who's specialized on it?
Do they not want their Fanbase to find scientific Entertainment of high Quality?
@@incelshateme Your comment is very silly and seems to miss basic conceptss of the world you live in, like how you dont seem to understand that people are different? So maybe he’s recommending you the best HE knows but you know other ones who may or may not be better? I mean: Helloooo??
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@@incelshateme That is not what happened
I have sailed through the Labrador Sea several times while cruising the Canadian Maritime provinces. The large variety of marine wildlife is very abundant. I've seen big pods of baleen whales there, and of course, dolphins of several species. This area is the best kept secret among cruising sailors, very few people visit these waters, I guess because the conditions can be harsh and unforgiving at times.
Franklin ? Is that you ?
Interesting... just today watched OCN seal rescue team video who saved a number of sharks and rays from dying in a large area of oxygen depleted ocean. There was a big die off of seal pups in the area they mentioned in a video posted a day or two ago as well.
Here's today's video...
ruclips.net/video/IgPpWGRXwzI/видео.html
...Why does Sci Show make videos about this Topic
and not mention UpisnotJump and Hbomberguy, the Top-Dogs when it comes to
individual Cimate-Change-Videos, let alone Simon Clark, a guy who's specialized on it?
Do they not want their Fanbase to find scientific Entertainment of high Quality?
@@nenmaster5218 ehhh, this is science too and the more see it the better. So where is the problem in making scientific videos over climate change?
@@nenmaster5218 Umm... I was interested in finding more climate change videos and... Upisnotjump is a video game commentator, Hbomberguy does only random videos, and Simon Clark only skims the topic.
@@kaitlyn6853
My favorite climate channel is Just Have A Think great in depth info on the latest studies and reports given in easily understandable breakdown.
ruclips.net/user/JustHaveaThink
@@kaitlyn6853 They all at least did their Research and have countless Subs not for no Reason.
Seems like you didnt give it much of a Look.
And Simon Clark is literally a Clima-Scientist. I think the problem here lies with you.
Literally just wrote a 15 page research paper on this for my climate class 😂
I’m a new subscriber as of today and I’ve watched quite a few of your videos! I absolutely Love this wide range of content! Very interesting and informative! Many thanks ! 🙂
It's the day after tomorrow 😭 I hope our kids and grandkids learn how NOT to be...yes , there are wonderful people out there from our generation ❤️ but seriously....we have REALLY messed things up....learn from our mistakes ❤️❤️❤️ be well and kind all
Well said.Thank you.
@@michaelallen8921 Ty ❤️ be well
Yep. And that movie came out quite a while ago by now. And yet humans continue along in disbelief. Much like they did in the movie. You would think we would have learned that it's actually pretty serious.
0:25 "The Labrador Sea is also known as the ocean's lung."
Oh, is this where lungfish come from?
Bladder fish
be willing to bet this is the reason for one of the great extinctions.
Didn't the Titanic go down right in the middle of the Labrador Sea? I feel like there's a hint of an ironic metaphor here, what with the rich coal and oil barons claiming "It's unsinkable!" and then a chunk of ice from the arctic comes along and we all know the rest.
We are being murdered deliberately.
France is rebuilding Paris to have more trees to provide shade.
More trees means higher albedo which drives warming... if you buy into the climate hysteria nothing will improve the state of the climate.
That hair tho 🥰❤️🥰❤️
Thanks for the information to bad not enough are actually thinking about it
This was only minorly talked about in my oceanography class and this is just another reminder that I have to start living better now!! Not just for me but for every living thing and the future!
SAVE EARTH'S NATURE 💜
Thank you for not using over complicated and supererogatory words! It makes it so much easier to learn. 🙏
@@kayakMike1000 lmao another
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia kinda vibe.
Come one SciShow, use the scientific term for this temperature and salinity driven current: Thermohaline Circulation.
The heat being shifted around Earth by ocean currents is at ruclips.net/video/PE_ELrjDe0E/видео.html at 19:33
The heat being shifted around Earth by air currents is at ruclips.net/video/SQOIHdlZngk/видео.html at 14:25 to 16:55
The latter fluid thermodynamics is what I used July, August 2018 when I amused myself calculating Arctic Ocean warming with the Arctic Ocean sea ice all gone in late March. I calculated just 4% more than the Open Source published paper in June 2019 (that used that CERES analysis in the video but with high tech modeling). Not bad.
Evolution has "worked" before,...... In fact, things evolve and new species explode and flourish when things warm up. There was a point where this rock didnt have any liquid water on it before. Changes can take place and transform over a span of seconds or thousands of years.. We still made it this far, some of us even made it past childhood, scales, feathers, hatching from eggs, gills...
God's federal choice of substantive human rights states / nation
Where has common sense gone? Is common sense no longer common?
Is there really something like a true global climate? For example, at the equator there is a rainforest climate, around the Mediterranean they enjoy a Mediterranean climate and up here in the north we have a Nordic climate. Around the world we find different climates, warmer or colder, dry or wet. A "global climate" from only a temperature perspective makes absolutely no common sense! Why worry about a simple global mathematical average from temperatures sampled from many places over time? Obviously, the global climate from this single measurement does not exist anywhere on the planet because it is just a static mathematical estimation down to a 1/10 of one Celsius degree. It seems silly that the worlds temperature represents climate in the same way as people's “average age” with half of the world’s population above and the younger 50% below to represents the "human age". What would such global “human age” tell us about any specific individual? Nothing of course! So what does the “world temperature” tell us? Nothing, because such a “global temperature” is NOT something that can be experienced at any specific location.
If we choose an arbitrary place, like a village in southern Scandinavia, the temperature at that village varies every single day by about 10 degrees between 25 degrees on a summer afternoon and 15 degrees late at night. During all four seasons of a year, the temperature in the same village can vary a lot more, maybe as much as 50 Celsius degrees, from icy -20 during a clear winter night to +30 degrees on balmy summer days. If the temperature at that village changes on average one degree here or there, it does not really matter at all for the villager’s life. Yet, we are bombarded by shrill preachers claiming that species will become extinct, and diversity will decline due to a one degree change in global mathematical average temperature. We are told about imminent "mass extinction risks" and that human living conditions are guaranteed to be destroyed for sure. Really? What does common sense say? Could +26 degrees during the day and +16 at night eradicate fauna, flora, and microorganisms? The south part of Scandinavian has very different fauna, flora, and microorganisms than the central landscapes, or the wild northern regions. Spring comes to the south a month earlier than what they expect up north, etc. Common sense tells us that what is likely to happen is that some of the southern life forms will begin to occur further north and bloom a little earlier during spring. Well, such healthy natural variation is precisely what scientists have observed from recorded treelines over thousands of years during a variety of historical climate conditions.
Should we trust what we are told or dare to trust our God given common sense? Many are too easily frightened by all sorts of dire predictions and intimidating threats. Frightened people desperate for a cure for their anxiety will readily accept any help on offer. In a panicked climate context, it can be anything from stopping the use of cars, forsake air travel and cancelling holiday trips, rationing meat, reducing home heating or cooling, and discourage young children from dreaming of an interesting, bright, and active future.
It is noteworthy what the Nobel Laureate Manne Siegbahn once reminisced. When he began to study physics at the beginning of the last century, many academics like himself honestly believed that only a few more pieces of Natures puzzle remained to be discovered and then science would have a complete holistic knowledge of the physical reality around us. However, it did not take long for extraordinary thinkers like Einstein, Planck and Bohr to name but a few, to open up large knowledge gaps in the picture and even to change the boundaries of already laid puzzle pieces. Today we are told with 100% certainty that the "science is settled" despite that history teaches us that the only thing we know for sure, is that we never know everything, especially about something as complicated and chaotic as Natures climate system. This is not to say that we should ignore our precautionary principles, but we must also trust our common sense in the face of the many political decisions that are rushed through only because the “Masters of Power” are 100% certain that we need to be saved from the imaginary world-wide "climate crisis".
In their too common ignorance, our leading politicians seem to hope for a day when we will all be able to see with the naked eye that a climate crisis is raging outside the window, like an approaching comet. This is a futile hope because a changing climate is as invisible to the human eye as the molecules and atoms in our own body. Despite this, the old mass-media is desperate to link every hot day, every recent forest fire, a glacier seen melting, another drought, changing land and sea levels and flooding rains as if they were occurring for the first time in Earth's history and must therefore must be valid evidence connected to "climate change". Globally we are just over one degree warmer today than during the "Little Ice Age" when the Thames froze over and millions of Europeans starved with numerous deaths. Scientists, journalists, or anyone should be sharing that during the "Little Ice Age" it was about one degree Celsius colder globally, and since then the global climate thankfully has improved until today!
But instead of being delighted about this climate normalisation they tell us that any increase in temperature is about "global heating" and it is our generations fault due to our irresponsibly luxurious way of life! Never are any other possible causes discussed than our modern way of living where energy from fossil fuel is the most important factor that has pulled us out of poverty. We are told that unless we funnel our economic powers into stopping the temperature from rising by another degree before the end of the century, we will make the planet too unlivable, and we will wipe out our civilization as we know it. We are told that the climate must and can be tamed and controlled by our generation of people by following the directives that politicians give us. The directives are made to influence every part of our daily lives. Previous climate history is ignored like the climate emergency that struck Europe in the 1860s. During that “Little Ice Age” summers went missing or were too short for farmers to grow and harvest crop. Few people have the stomach to reflect over the fact that such "Little Ice Age" could return at any time during coming decades. What social and logistic preparedness will be needed for our densely overpopulated world are questions that has become irrelevant because of the "Climate Crisis" in our overheating Bland New World.
Propaganda has historically been used for evil purposes - often influencing children and the young alike. It is favoured by dictators who are stuck in their own dogma regarding the politically acceptable. As a rule, the "Masters of Power" speak with well-chosen words, often in combination with adjectives such as emergency, crisis, and enemy threats, to herd obedient people along a predetermined compass direction. Common sense means to look critically at the flow of messages and using our own intuitive examination of what can be regarded as sensible, moral, wise, and above all realistic. This is clearly not just a battle over “climate truth” and this fight will most likely never end. Today and during past millenniums, people has never known what the future may hold. With a reasonable outlook, humanity will be able to go where the future trends are heading and like every generation before us, we can trust our future descendants to live in ways that they find wise and justified, just like it always has been.
Like we didn't have enough to worry about concerning CC. Now we know we'll probably suffocate most marine life in their own water. What a world we live in.
Uh oh
Why does Sci Show make videos about this Topic
and not mention UpisnotJump and Hbomberguy, the Top-Dogs when it comes to
individual Cimate-Change-Videos, let alone Simon Clark, a guy who's specialized on it?
Do they not want their Fanbase to find scientific Entertainment of high Quality?
Queue the Day After Tomorrow music
So put all that desalination salt over into the Labrador sea?
Very well-presented. Clear and simple.
I didn't quite follow the explanation for why the warm salty water from the gulf wouldn't sink as much. If the ice sheet melting is causing a decrease in salinity, shouldn't the saltier water from the gulf sink faster? Or is it because the temperature of the sea is dropping from the ice melt also causing it to be more dense?
The poles are cold and salty, the gulfstream is hot and salty, glacial melt is cold and fresh.
Adding glacial melt to the polar seas doesn't make them any colder but does make them less salty so the water sinks less overall.
Sinking is all about density, and density has many factors like pressure, temperature, disolved substances, ect.
The gulf stream doesn't sink because its warm (it makes europe like 10°F hotter than the same lattitudes in north America, as in Madrid spain is roughly the same lattitude as NYC). Thermal expansion is much more impactful than salinity which is only changing by a few percentage points at most. (But once the wayer cools to the expected temperature then salinity is the final straw for sinking/floating)
@@jasonreed7522 > Adding glacial melt to the polar seas doesn't make them any colder but does make them less salty so the water sinks less overall.
Right, so the decrease in salinity near the poles should cause the warm and salty water from the gulf to sink faster* once it cools if I'm understanding correctly. And by faster I mean faster than it used to when the water near the poles were more salty.
@@vvvvvvvvvwv the water from the gulf gets diluted by the melt water from Greenland's ice sheet and therefore is not as dense as the water at the bottom of the ocean, so the current weakens because as it sinks it meets up with the colder denser water at the bottom.
@@vvvvvvvvvwv The water from the ice sheet is diluting the water _from the gulf._ (I think that's the bit you were missing.) So the water that used to be warm and salty is now slightly less warm and a lot less salty. While the water underneath it is still very cold and very salty.
Water that has salt in it is denser, not the other way around. By diluting water you make it less dense and less likely to sink
Great info!
Yeah, sure...
Im starting to see more and more scishows topics seem to stick with a certain political parties narrative, So what ever that political party narrative is focused on so seems to be the topics of this show, i hope its not the case, Even if i agree with the issues i dont want a bias source escpecially with matters like science or nothing will progress.
There is a simple explanation for this. One political party follows science, and the other thinks Jesus had a pet dinosaur.
I feel like in the usa at least it's less of a awareness as much as having indoctrinated seniors not understanding how serious this issue this is. last weak tonight with john oliver has a good video on environmental racism, that could easily impact climate change if it was fixed
Let’s just get a giant, moon-sized salt shaker and sprinkle it over the areas where ice sheets are melting
Okay but seriously, we could just put salt around those areas right?
We got to do better and take better care of this planet and keep up the great work
Yeah you go on and take care of this planet. As if humans could actually influence much of anything on this small little dust note in the middle of nowhere good Lord you climate change hoaxers or boring
@@slugface322
Wouldn't it be more constructive to explain why we cannot influence this ocean current?
Maybe by explaining that ocean water freezes at far lower temperatures and the introduction of freshwater actually drives ocean salinity back up by forming ice more readily forcing salinity back up as well driving the current.
Just because SciShow was too limb brained to do the research or worse just does not want to cut a bit deeper into the complexities of what mechanisms drive the ocean currents with or without possible human interference doesn't mean you should ignore it too just to slight climate doomers.
@@slugface322 Ah yes, humans can't influence anything. We're totally not a species that has the power to nuke the world, destroy mountains , dry out oceans , control species evolution and change the landscape. No way we have enough power to change the atmosphere's composition.
It's not because the change is not visible to the naked eye that it isn't there.
@@VariantAEC if you hoxers will explain in a scientific manner how paying higher taxes and feeling morally superior will change the weather on a planet that is 4.5 billion years old I will join your silly cult immediately.
@@flavorlessquark8614 wow what's it like to be a member of a species so all powerful? Ya see kid I've been around in a time before this silly notion exsited. Yanno when there was tetraethyllead in our gasoline, which caused a couple of generations of children to have lead in their bloodstreams. A time when the last of 2,121 nuclear detonations occurred which the after effects can still be measured today. I piloted aircraft over major cities in the US so choked with smog you'd have trouble navigating by visual flight rules. Hell I gave up seafood years ago because hundreds of millions of tons of mercury have been dumped into the worlds oceans by coal fired power gennerating plants.
In the last 800,000 years global CO2 levels have varied between 200 ppm and 400 ppm. As mentioned in the video and what you should have learned in highschool earth science there is this thing called the carbon cycle.
In the 70s when this silly hoax was launched it was called "global warming" and a runaway greenhouse effect was predicted that would cause our atmosphere to become similar to the atmosphere on Venus. Ya know 1,352 pounds per sqaure inch and
Killing plankton
I;'e got to thinking a lot about water and the rain cycle. Seems to me that there's a lot of water loss the way humans are throwing so much food (Containing a lot of water) away into landfills etc.
All that food contains a lot of water that will take quite a while, to resurface and evaporate back into the rain cycle ,,, if ,,, ever.
What do you think? Major contributor to global warming?
That is sub sub sub sub sub sub negligible. Every day 1,400 trillion tonnes (TRILLION with a T) of water evaporates off the tropical & sub-tropical ocean and 310 trillion tonnes of that falls on land. This movement of 310 trillion tonnes of water per day from the tropical & sub-tropical ocean onto land is multiple decimal orders of magnitude larger than the water in your irrelevant topic.
And yet there is drought.
The lack of water plus the trillions of gallons of water that are use are quite capable of combining into a tipping point for extreme global environmental climate changes.
You're forgetting the amount of water transfer brings with it a change in thermodynamics as well.
At present i have researchers looking into all these factors.
Think butterfly effect.
Even an "insignificant" change in the environment can have huge effects.
@@grindupBaker
First
You're missing something. Talk about the status of the Gulf Stream as it is right now, today. You'll find some problems that is directly climate change related, including addition of fresh water.
ClimateCon
Hello Michael .... I'm genuinely happy for you , your journey and your radiant happiness... You've come through the dark times and now I hope you're happy and joyous for most of the part 😇✨ Be happy and spread love Michael 🍭🍬🍭🍬🤍✨
What happened to him?
Could you include links for platforms to donate to?
reduction of the underwater sea current's flow could also lead to a serious ice age.
i hope so, id rather freeze to death than be burnt to death
Labrador Sea: a Very Good Sea pupper that buries CO2 bones 😂
DENNIS QUAID IS SHAKING
Seeing Michael's transition makes me feel better about my own. Growing up doesn't necessarily mean looking bad. Michael looks very different as he matures. But he's still gorgeous. I'm trying to look at myself in the same way.
There's a lot to be learned from our oceans. Hopefully it will be exploited for bettering the World in the future.
Why does Sci Show make videos about this Topic
and not mention UpisnotJump and Hbomberguy, the Top-Dogs when it comes to
individual Cimate-Change-Videos, let alone Simon Clark, a guy who's specialized on it?
Do they not want their Fanbase to find scientific Entertainment of high Quality?
@@nenmaster5218 you a bot or only toxic copy paster?
@@RandomBlackBox Except: he wasnt toxic/hateful, you spem-sandwich
The great great grandchildren of generation Z will be hearing about climate change for *their entire life!*
Im 23 and I already feel like it’s been my whole life lol
As part of Gen Z, I doubt many of my peers are eager to have children given the economic climate for average people.
@@firstnamelastname6520 Yup, 30 years ago, they were predicting glaciers and ice caps would be gone 20 years ago.
Bold of you to assume we're making it that many generations. Bold of you to assume we're getting ONE more generation.
@@rhekman Funny. "They" told me you were full of it and shouldn't be taken seriously.
maybe someone should tell brilliant it's a myth you eat spiders in your sleep.
CO2 is great for greening the world and the levels are too low, not too high.
Thanks for the tip. i've been wondering about some of these platforms 🙏
@@Logos-Nomos too much from something can make it bad you know?
Your body needs sugars but eat too much and your body stirs that as fat. Keep eating it and your body stirs more and more. At some point your Organs are covered in fat and can no longer work properly. Your arteries block up and in the end you die. See how something that you need to live can also become something that can kill you? The dose makes the poison. Right now we are adding too much co2 to the air. The climate changes, becomes more extreme. Dry places become dryer and hotter, cold places even colder, Storms more aggressive, biomes destroyed by to fast changes, species extinct because they could not keep up with the changing weather.
@@RandomBlackBox The CO2 from fossil fuels hail from a time when there was far more life on the planet. It was a very green time We are currently in a very low CO2 state. There isn't enough and all of the antihuman leftists hate life and wish to kill as many people as possible.
Appreciate the optimism in our inevitable extinction but it's too late. Not in terms of science but changing people attitudes and wills to change. People are too far gone and humanity is going to die from its selfish attitudes. I give it 200 years max before humanity is on the brink
Agreed.
Yeah, I don't see it going differently.
Agreed, but 200 years is very generous.
I think we will find that the water currents are changing, not stopping.
Hot water still needs to flow north and south from the Equator... and the border is still heating up at the equator.
We need to take global warming seriously!!
@@Raven-kv9mb who said I wasn't just because I'm not towing the line of corporations and Big Business?
@@Raven-kv9mb But not too seriously. The current "crisis" narrative is seriously flawed and has big holes. Read more studies and less lefty media and you will see that the "crisis" part is more about religion than science.
We go on about climate change, but look how hard you all have work to create the video and upload it on mined resources and how hard iv work to buy my mined resource of a Samsung phone 😂😂😂 the argument will never end 😅😅
Not the Ocean's lungs!
We’re like the oceans Covid
oh come on the day after tomorrow i have a job interview i don't need the world to go all apocalypse now...
AKA Reason number 3,874,190,256 that humanity will go extinct in the next century.
I am so distracted by the haircut. Nice video, learned a lot.
Always a what if.
Why does Sci Show make videos about this Topic
and not mention UpisnotJump and Hbomberguy, the Top-Dogs when it comes to
individual Cimate-Change-Videos, let alone Simon Clark, a guy who's specialized on it?
Do they not want their Fanbase to find scientific Entertainment of high Quality?
So we're giving the ocean covid.
thanks for excellent graphics that help explain the concepts
"This is important because ice is almost always made up of fresh water. Under normal conditions when seawater freezes, only fresh water becomes ice. The salts that were in the waters stay dissolved in the seawater that remains. So when ice sheets form, the remaining seawater is always saltier because the same amount of salt is in now dissolved in less water. And when they melt the opposite happens freshwater comes back into the ocean lowering the the salinity."
What?
If ice forms from fresh water the water becomes more dense due to increased salinity and this increase in density drives the current. You leave out the fact that freshwater also freezes at much *higher temperatures than seawater and that hot water is less dense but that the waters south will always be significantly warmer than those to the north which will also are much more significant to driving currents than localized melt which isn't even that significant to begin with.
When an ice shelf cleaves its driven by significant growth along the ice sheet. That means there's less melt than new accumulated snow pack. Melt is literally just freshwater runoff cleaving is when a massive chunk of ice breaks off and falls into the sea and I don't know if you guys at SciShow were aware of this, but all iceburgs are made of ice.
[Edit: the lone correction to this comment was to a single word marked with an asterisk immediately preceding that word. The error was noticed by Joshua Owen, thank you.]
Lol you think fresh water freezes at much lower temperatures than salt water? Do you lick paint chips?
@@jowenlobo
Thanks for the correction. I will update the post. Funny what one word can do.
Fresh water freezes at 0°C while seawater freezes at temperatures much colder. Regardless the formation of ice has the same impact on salinity meaning higher freezing points lead to more ice higher salinity and a stronger current even if temperatures did increase enough to cause a weakening of this current - which isn't happening.
I think the point they were trying to make is that when the see starts to freeze the process of forming ice kicks salt out of the freezing water and into the ocean resulting in a higher salinity, and the reverse is when the glaciers/ice melt frsh water is added to the ocean lowering total salinity.
Its not that only fresh water freezes, its that generally the process if freezing makes the ice fresh. (And glaciers form from snow which starts with water evaporating which distills out the salt, so glacial melt will be fresh/pure water).
They had the right idea just not necessarily a clear delivery. (Melting water from glaciers will dilute the ocean and effect the overturning current that drags oxygen and other gasses the the deeper water layers. A movie with really bad science had this as its premise)
@@jasonreed7522
Their idea only works if there are no other factors, but there are other factors. Also melt water would likely be colder than the ocean water anyway and will plunge deeper than seawater combining with salt water and changing the temperature driving a current regardless though that current would be driving water away from the coastline sort of like a riptide. It ultimately wouldn't matter as the end result would be the same. Colder melt water (which will indeed be fresh water calling "melt water," "fresh melt water" is redundant) would continue to drive the current even if there was no ice formation on the surface.
Here some things to consider.
The warm salt water that is coming gets deluded by the enormous amounts of fresh water from ice/snow melting. Sub point, yes icebergs fall in to the ocean too but not always melt at that point and if about the same amount of sea water freezes, it can balance this out. But more ice melts than freezes.
Next you know how ice floats? But wait ice is cold water? Why is it not heavier?
Ice from water is funny because normal sea water with normal salinity is most dense at about 4 Degrees C. If you have sea water with less salt, by having it deluded, that water can’t sink deeper than the normal sea water. So the oxygen that got absorbed can’t go to the bottom anymore because it lacks the salinity to go past the other sea water. Making the water even colder just makes it lighter after that point and it floats up. Make it even colder and you get ice floating at the top on the surface. It is physically not possible for deluded water to become dencer than the cold salty sea water
reminds me of "the day after tomorrow". read a article once that went over the science in that movie and if it was a possible outcome of global warming. now wondering if that is a good mechanism to counter global warming. the resulting ice age would slow the absorption of co2 into the ocean. but it wouldn't stop it. countering global warming in its tracks with a extreme dip in temp. while the planet dealt with the excess co2. possibly even a counter to synthetic warming. i don't know how well the human race would weather an ice age
If we could usher in a new mini ice-age, we could buy ourselves the time we need to adapt to our carbon emissions... It wouldn't be easy, however it might come down to that if climate denial continues to run its course.
Mother Gaia is sick of us. Literally.
Gaia (read: the planet) doesn't care about us in the same way it doesn’t care about anything.
The redacted end to the title: and soon ours too
It's amazing how you mentioned this without talking about How this global heat and salinity exchange controls temperature and prevents say Europe from returning to a nice age climate
floyd ocean
Why does Sci Show make videos about this Topic
and not mention UpisnotJump and Hbomberguy, the Top-Dogs when it comes to
individual Cimate-Change-Videos, let alone Simon Clark, a guy who's specialized on it?
Do they not want their Fanbase to find scientific Entertainment of high Quality?
I wish you guys would moderate your comment sections. Is there a patreon tier for that?
Electric cars will save our species hahahahahahahaha
are u turning to a female slowly?!
dislike for anchor
Does anyone know how to disable the context box that appears under RUclips videos?
Ah yes, the place where the dogs come from... :P
I can't look at his hair. It's so utterly annoying.
Just say you’re jealous and go
Getting "the day after tomorrow" vibes.
This is what that movie was based on, it just took it to an illogical extreme and with really bad science invented an arctice hurricane equivalent which makes no sense based on how hurricanes form.
Its still a fun watch, but don't treat it as a valid science lesson.
The climate is changing throughout the galaxy. Not just on earth.
I think you mean to say "solar system", not galaxy, if you want to parrot the Monckton talking point. The galaxy is entirely incomparable in scale to a solar system. By current estimates, the milky way galaxy is about 66,844x the size of the solar system.
@@YCCCm7 yes, I meant to say the solar system. I’m tired. LOL anyway for all we know it’s also changing in the galaxy. 🤷🏼♀️
@@nancyj5490 Been there, done that lol... A few too many times.
oh well 🤷🏻♂️
Or the halting of the currents could cause the north to freeze up. Younger Dryas 2.0
It's depressing... watching the Earth die.
Time to start dumping those batteries back in the ocean!