Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos joining the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem. A fascinating peer-reviewed scientific paper was just published on how the Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) has changed over the past 5.3 million years. This massive and profoundly important ocean current system transports between 165 and 182 Sverdrup’s of water which is over 100 times more than the combined flow rate of all the rivers on our planet. One Sverdrup is a million cubic meters of water per second, so the ACC is of vital importance for heat flow on our planet. Basically, the ACC flow has increased as our planet continues to warm at accelerated rates. Links: 1) Key Ocean Current Contains a Warning on Climate: news.climate.columbia.edu/2024/03/27/key-ocean-current-contains-a-warning-on-climate/ 2) Google Earth 3) Earth Nullschool 4) Where is Point Nemo?: oceanservice.noaa.gov/facts/nemo.html#:~:text=This%20remote%20oceanic%20location%20is,of%20Antarctica%2C%20to%20the%20south. 5) Dynamics of Pacific Antarctic Circumpolar Current: iodp.tamu.edu/scienceops/expeditions/dynamics_of_pacific_ACC.html 6) ANDRILL (ANtarctic DRILLing Project): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANDRILL 7) Explainer: how the Antarctic Circumpolar Current helps keep Antarctica frozen: theconversation.com/explainer-how-the-antarctic-circumpolar-current-helps-keep-antarctica-frozen-106164 8) Open Source Peer Reviewed Scientific Paper: Five million years of Antarctic Circumpolar Current strength variability: www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07143-3.pdf “Abstract The Antarctic Circumpolar Current (ACC) represents the world’s largest ocean-current system and affects global ocean circulation, climate and Antarctic ice-sheet stability. Today, ACC dynamics are controlled by atmospheric forcing, oceanic density gradients and eddy activity. Whereas palaeoceanographic reconstructions exhibit regional heterogeneity in ACC position and strength over Pleistocene glacial-interglacial cycles, the long-term evolution of the ACC is poorly known. Here we document changes in ACC strength from sediment cores in the Pacific Southern Ocean. We find no linear long-term trend in ACC flow since 5.3 million years ago (Ma), in contrast to global cooling and increasing global ice volume. Instead, we observe a reversal on a million-year timescale, from increasing ACC strength during Pliocene global cooling to a subsequent decrease with further Early Pleistocene cooling. This shift in the ACC regime coincided with a Southern Ocean reconfiguration that altered the sensitivity of the ACC to atmospheric and oceanic forcings. We find ACC strength changes to be closely linked to 400,000-year eccentricity cycles, probably originating from modulation of precessional changes in the South Pacific jet stream linked to tropical Pacific temperature variability. A persistent link between weaker ACC flow, equatorward-shifted opal deposition and reduced atmospheric CO2 during glacial periods first emerged during the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT). The strongest ACC flow occurred during warmer-than-present intervals of the Plio-Pleistocene, providing evidence of potentially increasing ACC flow with future climate warming.” Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos joining the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.

@graemeguy341

2 ай бұрын

Thx Paul I wonderful piece of research by that team but must have cost millions. Provides clear evidence as to how influential the ACC is to the whole global circulation system.....but It will not be useful as a METRIC of change which is arguably the most critical concern now

If I wasn't completely broke, I would donate to help you out. Thank you for your coverage

We know so much. And yet we're helpless because of people and politics.

@teddybearroosevelt1847

2 ай бұрын

I disagree. Despite all we know it’s already to late to prevent the inevitable. We’re f#cked.

@imthedudemane

2 ай бұрын

Chasing our paychecks like a carrot, yes...

3.6km deep water. That's deep. Amazing technology. No surprise that the results confirm the ongoing warming.

I think Humans will be kicked up the arse when the ever warming oceans show just what devastation they are capable of, as they are storing more and more energy like a tensioned spring, thing is, when will it release a huge amount of that energy, that is an unpredictable event. Gaz UK

@Corrie-fd9ww

2 ай бұрын

Humans barely even notice or consider the oceans. All the hyperfocus and debate and cherry picking data over changing climate/weather, from people who don’t even know about, or remember, all of earth’s interconnected systems, and how the ocean is mother of them all. The shocks that are now and soon coming from the ocean are gonna be stunning.

@Gazr965

2 ай бұрын

@@Corrie-fd9ww Stunning is a good way of putting it.

So important that you keep sharing this information! Thank you, Paul! 😊

@LivingNow678

2 ай бұрын

cause Climate Change is certainly a topic that needs to be paid attention to

STUPENDOUS, STAGGERING …….. we’re burnt toast ……. Thnx, Paul. 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

I would love to see a video, in which Paul speculates the outcome of a complete shutdown of the AMOC, and as to whether human survival would benefit, compared to the very fast heating world we have anticipated due to rapid CO2 rise.

Many thanks Paul great info on the ACC!! Very important breakdown thank you for sharing this with us.

Very educational, thanks.

Mother Nature will sort it all out ….. it’ll probably take at least 500,000,000 years, but …….

@teddybearroosevelt1847

2 ай бұрын

Maybe earth will turn into a huge ball of lava or “we”’ll have another ice age or the planet will look like Mars again. None of these conditions are exactly conducive to life.

Just great information Paul very interesting, thanks.

When the zombies wake, levy going to break with awareness and urgency. So be it. ShakeUp XR

What makes scientist think the world's ocean would rise tens of meters if all the ice melts along the South Pole? -- How do they calculate this? -- Are they considering how much water will be absorbed by the land? -- And, if the southern polar current was to stop completely, would this interruption have an affect on the Earth's rotation? (if or when the rotation slows down, will we have to readjust our clocks?)

When things start getting real bad... at least we'll know just what is happening. There will still be the 'deniers', right to the bitter end (of humanity).

I have to ask," What should we do paul? " All the data in the world , but no action anywhere

How do we prepare for something we can't predict? We are amid a strange, pathological, and blind improvisation while confronting the consequences of global heating as the climate evolves over the coming years. Our leaders won't discuss how to mitigate or prepare for the worst. We will need an Aftermath Studies school at our universities. But that won't happen, we will desperately defend business as usual until billions of people have been terribly hurt. Young people will need strength. Will enough people pay attention?

@christinearmington

2 ай бұрын

They will when they’re starving 💀

@GlobeHackers

2 ай бұрын

Indeed.@@christinearmington

@user-ym5hx6ky2m

2 ай бұрын

Universities need habitat to exist, so there will be no "Aftermath Studies". That's easy to predict.

3600 year intervals

Haha 😂 For a moment I thought you said polar circumnavigating squirrels 🐿️ 🤦‍♀️

Algo boost! a crystal flute

Super flares and CME's over the next year and a half should accelerate the melting 😢

Is it possible to send an SOS out to space asking for any extra terrestrials to come help , explaining our situation and that our leaders refuse to do anything about it ??. I know it would take years , but at the moment, it seems out only hope . Why should we lose all the scientific information and advances we as humans have made just because of the greed of a few. Maybe a go fund me .

@christinearmington

2 ай бұрын

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