Everyone knows from school bench that the Gulf Stream warms entire continents. So imagine what happens when it completely changes direction. Now this process is underway and this explains many natural disasters...

Scientists have confirmed that the famous Gulf Stream has finally changed its direction. Now it does not reach Svalbard, but turns towards Greenland, which contributes to warmer weather on the American continent, but “freezes” northern Siberia.

The shutdown of the Gulf Stream was first reported by Dr. Gianluigi Zangari, a theoretical physicist at the Frascati Institute in Italy, in a journal article on June 12, 2010. The article is based on satellite data from the Colorado Aerodynamic Research Center, coordinated with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the US Navy . The author pointed to the stoppage of the rotation of water flows in the Gulf of Mexico and the division of the Gulf Stream into parts. Subsequently, the images were changed on the server of the Colorado Center for Aerodynamic Research, and now it is difficult to say by whom and when.

How was the flow

The colder and denser Labrador current “dipped” under the warm and lighter current of the Gulf Stream, without preventing it from heating Europe, reaching Murmansk. Then the Labrador Current “surfaced” off the coast of Spain under the name of the cold Canary Current, crossed the Atlantic, reached the Caribbean Sea, warmed up and, passing through a loop in the Gulf of Mexico, already under the name Gulf Stream rushed unhindered back to the North.

The Gulf Stream was part of the thermohaline circulation system, a key element in the planet's thermal regulation. It separated England and Ireland from becoming a glacier. Smoothed out the climate in the Scandinavian countries.

Following Dr. Zangari's report, the Canadian Parliament set up a commission to investigate real state affairs with the Gulf Stream near the coast of the state. It was headed by a well-known US oceanologist Ronald Rabbit, a technologist for processing the biomass of the oceans and improving the environment. A special dye that does not harm the flora and fauna of the ocean was poured into containers exploding at a certain depth and, thus, tracked the flow of movement of water masses. The Gulf Stream as an existing current was not discovered.

But as it turned out self-regulating system under the name "worked" and this time. According to research, the current "creeped" by 800 miles (1481 kilometers) east of the zone former Gulf Stream. According to satellite images, the temperature of this current has increased relative to the Gulf Stream. This means that the evaporation rate has increased in the warm zone above the ocean.

A small digression: the majority of people believe that moist air is heavier than dry air, but this is not so. O2 oxygen molecules, carbon dioxide CO2 and nitrogen N2 are heavier than water molecules H2O.

What brings us such a change

Presumably very cold to -45 degrees and little snowy winter in the European part of Russia, Western Europe will be covered with snow, and hurricane winds will rage on the border of the fronts. In mid-February 2011, instead of frost, spring came in Canada with a temperature of +10. America, apparently, will not be left without a "carrot" either. Confirmation of this is the recent cold weather in Montana, South Dakota, Texas, Arkansas and Tennessee.

Major world ocean currents. The Gulf Stream originates in the Gulf of Mexico and heads towards Europe ( dark color"river"), turns towards Greenland, cools (gray, light color of the "river"), plunging into the depths, and flows south. According to new data, the course of the Gulf Stream (surface warm flow) deviated beyond recent times towards Greenland for 800 km.

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Gulf Stream system of warm currents in the sowing. hours of the Atlantic Ocean, extending over 10 thousand km from the Florida Peninsula to the Spitsbergen Islands and New Earth. Discovered by Spanish navigators at the beginning of the 16th century. and was called the Florida Current. The name Gulf Stream in 1722 was proposed by B. Franklin. Originates in the south. h. Florida Ave. as a result of a strong surge of trade winds of water into the Gulf of Mexico. through the Yucatan Strait. When entering the ocean, the current capacity is 2160 km per day, which is 20 times higher than the flow of all the rivers of the globe. Going out into the ocean, it connects with the Antilles current and at 38 ° N.l. its power more than triples. Further G. moves at a speed of 6-10 km / h to the north along Atlantic coast Sev. America to Bol. Newfoundland Bank, outside of which is called the North Atlantic Current. The width of the stream from the south to the north increases from 75 to 200 km, the thickness is 700-800 m, the water temperature on the surface decreases from 24-28 to 10-20 °C. G. has a huge impact on the nature of the sowing. part of the Atlantic Ocean and the adjacent part of the North. the Arctic Ocean, as well as the climate of Europe, creating very mild climatic conditions in temperate and arctic latitudes.

Photo: Norman B. Leventhal Map Center at the BPL

The main branch of this current originates in the Gulf of Mexico (whence its name comes from, which means “current from the Gulf” in English) and penetrates into the Atlantic through the Strait of Florida; further, the current deviates to the north by the Great Bahama Bank, an underwater platform located southeast of the Florida Peninsula.

Leaving the Gulf of Mexico, the Gulf Stream carries large accumulations of floating algae of the genus Sargassum and different types thermophilic fish (including flying ones). Off the east coast of Florida, the boundaries of the Gulf Stream are clear, especially the western one. The sparkling blue of this current contrasts sharply with the greenish gray of the colder waters. North Atlantic.

The flow itself is not just homogeneous mass moving ribbon of water. It consists of several streams having approximately the same direction. Near its eastern edge there are numerous right-twisting eddies; some of them are even completely separated from the main stream.

Near the Great Bahama Bank, the Gulf Stream receives a branch of the Northern Equatorial Current and follows in general parallel to the east coast of the United States, but at a small distance from it. It is with the warm waters of this current that the mild winter in Bermuda is associated. Near Cape Hatteras (North Carolina coast), the Gulf Stream turns to the northeast and heads towards the Great Bank of Newfoundland. Here it meets the cold Labrador current, and also comes into contact with more cold air coming from the north. As a result, fogs are almost constantly observed in this area. From the Great Newfoundland Bank, the Gulf Stream moves eastward to the shores of Europe (this part of it is called the course of the West Winds). Approximately in the middle of the North Atlantic, the Gulf Stream divides into two currents. One of them follows further east to the shores of Europe, and then, turning south, forms the Canary Current, the other, called the North Atlantic Current, gradually deviates to the left and continues to move to the northeast. This current passes western coasts The British Isles, where a branch again separates from it, heading west, to the southern shores of Iceland, the Irminger Current. Another part of the North Atlantic Current, the Norwegian Current, follows the coast of Norway.

Ideas about the flow, popular in our time, developed in the last century. The Gulf Stream has been compared to a river changing its position (meandering) in the ocean. The studies that existed at that time in this part of the ocean made it possible to attribute the current to geostrophic (i.e., formed by the balance of only two forces: the pressure gradient on the water and the Coriolis force) currents. On the surface of the ocean, the Gulf Stream has a width of 70-100 km, and a depth from the surface of about 500 m.

The current passes along the hydrofront - the boundary between cold (and less saline) slope water in the west and north and warm (and more saline) water of the Sargasso Sea in the east and south, and the Gulf Stream itself meanders within a distance of about 500 km (Fig. 2, 3) - along the hydrofront area, leading to the formation of warm (to the left of the jet) and cold (to the right of it) eddies with a speed of up to 1.5 m/s with a diameter of up to 400 km. This information about the dynamics of the Gulf Stream waters was obtained mainly by analyzing data on the temperature and salinity of the water, i.e. thermohaline parameters.

However, within the framework of existing ideas about the nature of the Gulf Stream, it is impossible to explain why, outside the current, the masses of water (its bed) move in the opposite direction, why the current pulsates, stops, and then picks up speed again, and after 10-20 days the situation repeats. And why did numerous attempts to reproduce these properties on the model fail? We have attempted to answer some of these questions using data from direct current measurements.

Not so long ago, a new device appeared in the hands of oceanologists. This is a drifter - a float with an antenna that allows you to monitor the movement of water, and from here determine the speed and direction of the current, in this case at a horizon of 15 m. Information about the positions of the drifter in the ocean is transmitted via satellite to the Data Collection Center. More than 400 drifters have been launched in the Gulf Stream area and in some proximity to it in the last 10 years, each of which provided information on average for a year and a half. As a result, a huge amount of material was collected about the currents and temperature of the water, on the basis of which we conducted our own analysis of the dynamics of the Gulf Stream and tried to understand its nature.

A region of the ocean stands out, in which the speed is much higher. Let us consider this region as the Gulf Stream.

The current velocities here decrease from south to north, from 1 to 0.5 m/s. In the southern part, the Gulf Stream has a width of about 100 km, and in the northern part - more than 300 km. From more detailed information presented in Figs. 5, 6, it follows that the currents of the Gulf Stream are quite stable in direction, at least in its main part, south of 38°N.

Let us now consider the behavior of currents in the Gulf Stream. To do this, we analyze a typical Gulf Stream track and the course of the current velocity module (Fig. 7, below). It can be stated that within the Gulf Stream, especially its southern part, drifters, and hence the masses of water, move predominantly unidirectionally and along the isobaths, or rather along the shelf edge. In this case, the water flow does not move strictly along the isobaths, but makes small oscillations to the right - to the left in relation to the movement of the main water flow. Such fluctuations are small in the part of the Gulf Stream south of 38°N. and significant to the north of it. With such a predominantly unidirectional movement of the water flow, the velocity pulsates, reaching values ​​close to zero in the minima. Sometimes the flow of water moves in reverse direction, although weakly. What is the reason and force that makes the waters behave in this way: stop, and then pick up speed and stop again, etc., i.e. pulsate in time and space? This behavior of currents clearly contradicts the ideas about them as thermohaline, geostrophic.

One gets the impression that a powerful stream of water in the form of a jet enters the ocean from the Gulf of Mexico through the Strait of Florida, which forms the Gulf Stream. Previously, this is exactly what was considered. Hence the current got its name: Gulf Stream, which in English means - the river of the Gulf (Mexican) or the stream of the Gulf. However, this impression is deceptive. Later it was found that the Gulf Stream is mainly formed by the mentioned slope cold waters from the north and the warm waters of the Sargasso Sea from the south, but not by the Gulf of Mexico, from where water practically does not come. It also turned out that in the middle part of the Gulf Stream the flow of water is much greater than in the southern part, in the Strait of Florida (and these facts are in no way consistent with the thermohaline and geostrophic nature of the current). It is no coincidence that they began to talk about the Gulf Stream not as a river flowing out of the bay, but as a current carrying its waters from the Florida Peninsula.

The Gulf Stream is a large sea current in the Atlantic Ocean. Thanks to its warm waters European states located on the shores of the ocean, have a milder climate than without it.

It would seem that where does the water and air have to do with it, and how is the influence of the Gulf Stream on Europe so great? The answer is very simple: the warm waters of the current heat the air, which reaches the coast of Eurasia with the wind, preventing the countries located on the continent from freezing.

The power of the current is really impressive. The water flow per second is more than in all the rivers of the planet and amounts to 50 million cubic meters. m. There is as much heat in the Gulf Stream as 1 million nuclear power plants would emit.

The Gulf Stream receives its warm water supply from the Gulf of Mexico and carries it along the coast. North America almost to Canada, where it turns into the open ocean, heading towards Europe. Wasting a colossal supply of heat along the way, the current still brings so much energy to the mainland that the tundra has not formed in Europe. And I should have, because above 60 degrees north latitude, reindeer live in other places on the planet, and in Europe, green meadows live at the same latitude.

The biological productivity of the Gulf Stream has not been the subject of special studies. The biomass of plankton in the Gulf Stream zone is also low. The Gulf Stream area cannot be a feeding area for either boreal or subtropical fish, since the former avoid the warm waters of the Gulf Stream, while the latter find favorable conditions in the area of ​​the frontal zones of the Gulf Stream and the waters of the Atlantic.

The importance of the Gulf Stream is its participation in the "breeding" of the largest commercial species of fish and zooplankton. Colliding with the cold waters in the north of the ocean, the current creates the so-called "banks", which are an ideal place for the existence of flora and fauna. In such places, fishing for commercial fish flourishes: herring, cod, etc. The development of small crustaceans forms "feeding fields" for many cetaceans that arrange annual migrations here.

E. Volodin, Ph.D. Phys.-Math. Sciences.

Rumors persist about the weakening of the Gulf Stream, which is either due to an oil leak in the Gulf of Mexico, or due to a strong melt arctic ice, and that it threatens us with unheard-of climatic catastrophes, up to the onset of a new ice age. Letters come to the editorial office with a request to clarify whether the warm current will really disappear soon. Evgeny Volodin, Candidate of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, answers questions from readers Researcher Institute of Computational Mathematics RAS.

Rice. 1. Anomaly (deviation) of surface temperature in September-November 2010 compared to September-November 1970-2009. Data from NCEP (National Centers for Environmental Prediction, USA).

Rice. 2. Difference in ocean surface temperatures between June 2010 and June 2009. GODAS data.

Rice. 3. Difference in ocean surface temperatures in September-November 2010 and September-November 2009. GODAS data.

Rice. 4. Current velocities in June 2010 at a depth of 50 m, according to GODAS data. The arrows indicate the direction, the color - the magnitude of the speed (m / s).

The Gulf Stream is a warm current in the Gulf of Mexico that goes around Florida, flows along the east coast of the United States to about 37 degrees N. and then breaks away from the coast to the east. Similar trends exist in pacific ocean- Kuroshio, and in the Southern Hemisphere. The uniqueness of the Gulf Stream lies in the fact that after breaking away from the American coast, it does not turn back to the subtropics, but partially penetrates into high latitudes, where it is already called the North Atlantic Current. It is thanks to him that in the north of the Atlantic the temperature is 5-10 degrees higher than at similar latitudes in the Pacific Ocean or in the Southern Hemisphere. For the same reason North hemisphere generally slightly warmer than the South.

The root cause of this unusual North Atlantic is that the water over the Atlantic Ocean evaporates a little more than it falls in the form of precipitation. Over the Pacific, on the other hand, precipitation slightly outnumbers evaporation. Therefore, in the Atlantic, the water is on average somewhat saltier than in the Pacific Ocean, which means that it is heavier than the fresher Pacific Ocean, and therefore it tends to sink to the bottom. This is especially intense in the North Atlantic, where salt water is also made heavier by cooling on the surface. In place of the water that has sunk into the depths, water from the south comes to the North Atlantic, this is the North Atlantic Current.

Thus, the causes of the North Atlantic Current are global, and they are unlikely to be significantly affected by such a local event as the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. According to the most pessimistic estimates, the area of ​​the oil slick is one hundred thousand square kilometers, while the area of ​​the Atlantic Ocean is slightly less than one hundred million square kilometers (that is, a thousand times larger than the slick). According to the NCEP atmospheric reanalysis data (National Centers for Environmental Prediction, USA) - synthesized data from satellites, ground-based observation stations, soundings, "assimilated" by the atmospheric dynamics model (atmospheric model of NCEP's Global Forecast System - GFS), with the warm currents of the North Atlantic, there is nothing to worry about until it happened. Take a look at the map compiled from this data (Figure 1). In September-November 2010, the deviation of surface temperature in the Gulf of Mexico, as well as in that part of the Atlantic where the Gulf Stream and the North Atlantic Current pass, from the average value in the same months of 1970-2009 does not exceed one degree Celsius. Only in the northwest of the Atlantic, in the region of the cold Labrador Current, do these anomalies reach two or three degrees. But such a magnitude of seasonal anomalies is quite common and is observed in a particular region almost every year.

Reports that the Gulf Stream between the 76th and 47th meridians in 2010 became colder by 10 degrees Celsius are not confirmed either. According to GODAS data (Global Ocean Data Assimilation System - a system for assimilation of all available observational data - satellites, ships, buoys, etc. - using an ocean dynamics model), the average ocean surface temperature in June 2010 is between about 40 and degrees W.L. was lower than in June 2009, by only one or two degrees, and only in one place - by almost three degrees (Fig. 2). But such temperature anomalies are quite within the framework of natural variability. Usually they are accompanied by "deviations" of a different sign in neighboring areas of the ocean, which happened in the summer of 2010, according to GODAS data. So if they are averaged over the entire North Atlantic, then the average temperature deviation was close to zero. In addition, such phenomena usually live for several months, and in autumn the negative anomaly was no longer observed (Fig. 3).

The existence of the Gulf Stream is well confirmed by GODAS data on horizontal speeds currents at a depth of 50 m, averaged over June 2010. A map compiled from this data (Figure 4) shows that the Gulf Stream, as always, flows through the Gulf of Mexico, around Florida and along east coast USA. Then it breaks away from the coast, becomes wider, at the same time the speed of the current drops (as it should), that is, nothing unusual can be traced. Approximately the same, according to GODAS, the Gulf Stream flows in other months of 2010. Note that 50 m is the most characteristic depth at which the Gulf Stream is best seen. For example, surface currents may differ from those at a depth of 50 m, most often due to the influence of the wind.

However, there have been cases in history when events occurred similar to those described in the “horror stories” that are now widespread. The last such event occurred about 14,000 years ago. Then ended glacial period, and on the territory of North America, a huge lake was formed from the melted ice, dammed by a glacier that has not yet melted. But the ice continued to melt, and at some point the water from the lake began to flow into the North Atlantic, freshening it and thereby preventing the water from sinking and the North Atlantic Current. As a result, it became noticeably colder in Europe, especially in winter. But then, by existing estimates, the impact on the climate system was huge, because the flow fresh water was about 10 6 m 3 /s. This is more than an order of magnitude higher than, for example, the current runoff of all Russian rivers.

Another important point, which I would like to emphasize: the average seasonal anomalies of atmospheric circulation in temperate latitudes depend to a very small extent on the anomalies of ocean surface temperature, including such large ones as were observed this summer in European Russia. Specialists in seasonal weather forecasting argue that only 10-30% of the deviations from the “norm” of the average seasonal temperature at any point in Russia are due to anomalies in ocean surface temperature, and the remaining 70-90% are the result of natural variability of the atmosphere, the root cause of which is unequal heating high and low latitudes and it is almost impossible to predict which for a period of more than two or three weeks (see also "Science and Life" No. 12, 2010).

That is why it is wrong to consider the observed weather anomalies in Europe in the summer of 2010 or in any other season as the result of only the influence of the ocean. If this were the case, seasonal or monthly weather deviations from the "norm" would be easily predicted, since large anomalies in ocean temperature, as a rule, are inertial and live for at least several months. But so far, no forecasting center in the world has been able to make a good seasonal weather forecast.

If we talk specifically about the causes of the anomaly in the summer of 2010 in Russia, then it was caused by the interaction of two randomly coinciding factors: a blocking anticyclone, which caused air transport to central regions Russia mainly from the east-southeast, and soil drought in the Volga and Cis-Urals, which allowed the spreading air not to waste heat on the evaporation of water from the surface. As a result, the increase in air temperature near the surface turned out to be truly unprecedented for the entire observation period. However, the probability of occurrence of a blocking anticyclone and soil drought in the Volga region depends little on anomalies in ocean surface temperature, including in the Gulf Stream region.

Gulf Stream This is a "river" with warm water, which moved across the Atlantic Ocean, reached Murmansk and warmed Europe with its warmth, while protecting it from polar winds.

The Gulf Stream has stopped, and it acts as a temperature regulator of our planet. He does not allow Europe to freeze, and Scandinavia to turn into a glacial world. Due to recent events everything has changed. Now the thermohaline circulation system is gradually dying and will soon completely disappear.

Explosion in the Gulf of Mexico

The culprit of the tragedy was the British Petroleum (BP) oil company, where in April last year on the oil platform deepwater horizon located in the Gulf of Mexico exploded as a result of negligence. The consequences were simply terrible. Within five months, the damaged Macondo well was leaking oil out of control, totaling about 4.9 million barrels.

The damage done to the Atlantic Ocean was simply colossal. Billions of dollars were required to eliminate the consequences of the accident. Having calculated the amount of expenses to be spent on the elimination of the accident and the payment of a federal fine (depending on the extent of pollution), the company's management (BP) turned to Barack Obama with a request to reduce the area of ​​the polluted ocean by sinking oil to the bottom.

The Obama Administration (BP) granted the request, resulting in about 2 million gallons of Corexit being poured into the Atlantic Ocean, as well as several million gallons of other dispersants, in addition to the huge amount of already spilled crude oil. When asked by journalists about how such a measure would affect the ecology of the planet, management (BP) said that everything would be in order, and there was no reason to panic.

Scientists did not take the word of the leadership of British Petroleum and conducted a very simple experiment that clearly showed what is actually happening in the Atlantic Ocean. During the experiment, a conventional cold water bath was used. By giving color to the warm jets of water, one could see the boundaries of the cold layers and warm jets. When the oil was added to the bath, the boundaries of the warm water layers were broken and the current vortex was effectively destroyed. This experiment showed the principle of action of Corexit, which in this moment slowly killing the Gulfstream.

Before dispersants were added to the water, the causes of the disaster could be eliminated, of course, a lot of money and time had to be spent on this, but now there is no way to do this, since at the moment there is not one efficient technology cleansing the bottom of the bay. Moreover, oil has already reached the east coast of America and then flowed into the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean, where there are no prospects and opportunities for raising it to the surface and cleaning it. ocean floor.

The Gulf Stream has stopped

First reported stop Gulfstream Dr. Gianluigi Zangari, theoretical physicist at the Frascati Institute in Italy. He has been monitoring changes in the Gulf of Mexico for several years. All of his observations are based on Colorado's CCAR satellite photographs approved by the US Navy's NOAA.

Since the publication of his paper on irreversible changes in warm ocean water currents, all photographs and maps received from CCAR have been edited on the server serving the satellite.

Dr. Zangari is confident that the scale of pollution will only increase over time, as oil has the ability to expand, and this in turn will entail even more serious consequences for the coming environmental catastrophe.

The Gulf of Mexico conveyor went out of business this fall, the latest satellite data clearly show that the Gulf Stream is now gone, starting to break apart and die about 250 kilometers east of the coast of North Carolina, with the width of the Atlantic Ocean at that latitude exceeds 5000 km.

The picture of the near future of ecology was clearly drawn by the Russian scientist professor, author of two monographs and 130 publications in the field of physics, acoustics, geophysics, mathematics, physical chemistry, Economics Sergei Leonidovich Lopatnikov.

Impact of the Gulf Stream on climate

According to S. Lopatnikov, the abnormal heat that lasted all last summer in Moscow and central Russia, as well as floods in Central Europe and inappropriate cold in Germany and England, is only the beginning of a changing climate system directly related to the Gulf Stream.

Thermohaline water system warm waters flow through cooler renders big influence not only to the ocean, but to the upper atmosphere up to a height of seven miles. The absence of the Gulf Stream in the eastern part of the North Atlantic disrupts the normal course of atmospheric flows, which leads to natural disasters.

Based on these considerations, in the near future we will face drought, crop failures, famine, large migrations of people from uninhabitable areas, global cooling (the irony of fate - they were afraid of global warming, but waited for global cooling) and as a result of the ice age, which will first cover the territory of the Northern America and then gradually move to Europe and Asia.

During global icing, if the whole process proceeds quickly, 2/3 of humanity will die, and if the rate of seizure of territories by cold is not so active, then the same 2/3 will die only within a few years.

So. If we delve into at least the initial forecasts for the development of the future climate, then at a glance we can safely say the following:

• In the near future, an oil slick will appear on the surface of the Gulf of Mexico and the Atlantic.
• Oil, artificially deposited on the bottom, will subsequently rise and become a layer between the layers of water.

The first of the above will entail two consequences:

1. The parameters of moisture evaporation will change, and the heat exchange between the water surface and the atmosphere will be disturbed (it is obvious that less evaporation occurs, and the evaporated liquid is warmer than normal).
2. The dynamics of heating and cooling will change water masses carried away by the currents formed in the Atlantic (including those in the Gulf of Mexico and near it).

The second point above will lead to two more consequences:

1. Due to the oil in the middle layers of the water, it will lose its transparency and will create the effect of a giant lens due to which there will be a strong heating of the liquid itself and the air, inevitably leading to the death of fish, birds and animals.
2. The second adverse effect will be reflected in the change in composition, color, viscosity, temperature and salinity. sea ​​water in the Gulf of Mexico, and this will lead to a stop of the annular current. The consequences can only be guessed at.

global catastrophe

Completely new data have also been obtained, based on the study of satellite images and on accurate mathematical analysis by Dr. Zangari.

“Today, temperature measurements of the Gulf Stream between the 76th and 47th meridians show that it is 10 degrees Celsius colder than it was during the same period last year. Accordingly, we can talk about the presence of a direct causal relationship between the stop of the warm Annular Current in the Gulf of Mexico and the fall in the temperature of the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream has stopped.

One can only guess who Barack Obama thinks he is, taking such serious decisions alone, without consulting other states? When it comes to a global catastrophe, it is absolutely unacceptable to take into account any territorial principles.

What concerns more than one country cannot be decided by the government of that state. He not only made a decision that was detrimental to the planet, but is also an accomplice in a crime against humanity and the environment.

Update from 2014

According to the latest data, the Gulf Stream has completely disappeared. Tons of oil that fell into the ocean caused a mixture of different temperature currents and destroyed the Gulf Stream, which is the "stove of Europe." The warm and comfortable climate of Western Europe and America depended on it by 90 percent. Its waters carried 50 million m3 of warm water per second, and the power of the current was equivalent to 1 million nuclear power plants.

We can see the consequences of the global catastrophe even now. A series of floods, severe frosts and abnormal precipitation swept across the United States, Europe and Russia. AT summer periods Europe is flooded with cold torrential rains, and in America they cannot cope with abnormal heat and drought.

The warm current, once called the Gulf Stream, carried its waters to the northern latitudes, changing the local climate. In the future, this could turn into another global catastrophe for humanity. Large-scale melting of age-old glaciers.

But he will not think about such distant cataclysms, since we can simply not live up to them.

To localize the accident on oil platform The Deepwater Horizon took more than three months to release 800,000 cubic meters of oil into the ocean. The maximum damage to the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico was inflicted in the early days. For several more months, the liquidators of the accident tried to scoop out the rapidly spreading oil slicks, but their attempts were in vain.

Giant oil lenses penetrated deep into the ocean, causing all life below them to die. Seeing that it was useless to fight the consequences of the accident with the old methods, the US government, together with the cabinet of directors of the British Petroleum company, took drastic measures by dumping tons of chemical reagents that precipitated oil to the bottom into the ocean. Further, for the destruction of oil, they decided to use the latest, specially created microorganisms for this purpose.

bacterium synthia

Since the late 80s, American geneticists have been developing artificial microorganisms that feed on hydrocarbons and are capable of absorbing petroleum products, natural gas and coal.

As a result, in 2007, Synthetic Genomics Incorporated (Synthetic Genomics Inc.) patented its development. A completely artificial bacterium dubbed "Cynthia".

Geneticists managed to synthesize artificial DNA and place it in living cell, and then breed the offspring of this microorganism. The developers of Cynthia positioned their offspring as a means of dealing with oil spills, but some researchers are sure that this is a biological weapon, the side effect of which is eating oil. It was he who wanted to be used to eliminate the consequences of the accident.

At first, the synthias really absorbed oil products, but moving deep into the ocean, multiplying, creating their own colonies and mutating, the preferences of these bacteria changed dramatically. They abandoned oil and began to eat organic matter: algae, jellyfish, fish, animals and, in the end, people.

Already in 2011, it became clear that the Cynthias were no longer involved in the destruction oil spills, and multiplying, they devour all life in the ocean.

Some time later, frightening information appeared in the press that the inhabitants of the Mexican coast were struck by a certain virus, originally called the "Blue Flu".

Symptoms of blue flu appeared in people swimming in the Gulf of Mexico, and were expressed in the form of skin ulcers, internal bleeding and damage to the respiratory tract.

At first, the disease could be stopped with antibiotics, but the victims had severe damage to the skin and respiratory organs. Not knowing how to cope with the scourge, the doctors said that this was some new virus unknown to medicine, and they had no means of combating it.

Later it turned out that an unknown virus is carried by synthia, created in such a way that not a single antibiotic or chemical works on them. It can be said that they are practically invulnerable.

Why was it necessary to make bacteria created to eliminate oil pollution so resistant to suppression methods is not clear? It was here that many researchers started talking that this virus was created as a weapon, and it was tested in the Gulf of Mexico, but something went wrong, the virus mutated, and the antidote made to deactivate it did not work.

Whichever version is correct, it doesn't matter now. The inhabitants of the Mexican coast are dying by the hundreds from purulent wounds, and the reason for this is the synthia, which is still freely spreading through the waters of the world's oceans.

The US authorities are aware of the consequences of their carelessness, but at the same time they are holding back the wide-scale dissemination of scandalous information in every possible way. Having destroyed the Gulf Stream and destroyed the ecosystem of the Gulf of Mexico, the White House administration did not think it was enough, and they decided to further aggravate the problem by opening Pandora's box and releasing a deadly infection into the ocean, from which there is no salvation yet.

The Gulf Stream has stopped: fact or fiction?
Av.Olga Skidan
Date:May 28, 2013

In 2010 global community shocked by the news that in the near future the beginning of a new Ice Age is possible. Italian physicist Gianluigi Zangari, associate National Institute nuclear physics Frascati, made a sensational statement: "The Gulf Stream has stopped!"
The scientist came to such conclusions by analyzing the observational data obtained from satellites for atmospheric and oceanic phenomena in the Gulf of Mexico.

According to an Italian scientist, the Gulf Stream stopped as a result of a large-scale environmental tragedy in this area. For several months, British Petroleum's Deepwater Horizon well has been leaking crude oil into the waters of the bay. In total, about two hundred million gallons of substance poured out, which formed a kind of "oil volcano" at the bottom. BP management and the US authorities tried to hide this fact by dumping two million gallons of Corexit solvent and a huge amount of other dispersants into the Gulf of Mexico to suppress hydrocarbons. It was not possible to neutralize the consequences of the disaster, it was only possible to hide the true extent of the damage - part of the bay was cleaned from the oil film, but it is impossible to remove oil from a great depth. And the most irreparable consequence of an oil leak is that the temperature, viscosity and salinity of sea water has changed, as a result of which the boundaries between the layers of cold and warm water have collapsed, because of this the undercurrents have slowed down, and in some places the Gulf Stream has stopped altogether. All this prompted Zangari to make such a statement.

What is Gulfstream? This is the main warm current of the Earth, which forms weather in areas adjacent to the Atlantic Ocean. He does Scandinavian countries habitable and maintains a warm climate in European countries. And if the Gulf Stream has stopped, then we are waiting for the onset of the Ice Age. First of all, England and Ireland will be covered with ice, northern states America and Canada, then cold snap will cover North America, Europe and Asia. People will be forced to move to warmer places. Cold, migration, crop failure and, as a result, famine will lead to the extinction of about two-thirds of all mankind.

In 2010, the scientist did not believe in the self-healing of the current, as he suspected that the oil leak was continuing. But after some time, satellite images were received that did not confirm the fact that the Gulf Stream had stopped. Photographs from outer space showed that the North Atlantic Current was again carrying its warm waters along its usual route.

So what, the world's global catastrophe is cancelled? There is no definite answer to this question. Scientists say that the Gulf Stream stopped temporarily for several days, a similar situation was already in 2004, and then there were no negative consequences for the Earth. But supporters of the global conspiracy theory argue that all images of the Gulf of Mexico received from satellites after 2010 are fake. The climate is changing, but gradually, because the waters of the Gulf Stream have not yet cooled completely, and there are several years before the global cooling.

The Gulf Stream

In Western Europe, as well as east coast The US climate is quite mild. So on the coast of Florida, the average water temperature is very rarely below 22 ° Celsius. It's in winter months. In summer, the air heats up to 36°-39° Celsius with humidity reaching 100%. Such temperature regime extends far to the east and north. It covers the states: Arkansas, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee, Texas, Kentucky, Georgia, Louisiana, and North and South Carolina.

All these administrative formations lie in the region of a humid subtropical climate, where the summer average daily temperature does not fall below 25 ° Celsius, and in the winter months it drops to 0 ° Celsius very rarely.

If we take Western Europe, then the Iberian, Apennine and Balkan Peninsulas, as well as the entire southern part France are located in subtropical zone. The summer temperature in it fluctuates between 26°-28° Celsius. In winter, these figures drop to 2°-5° Celsius, but almost never reach 0°.

In Scandinavia, the average winter temperature ranges from minus 4° to 2° Celsius. In the summer months it rises to 8°-14°. That is, even in northern regions the climate is quite acceptable and suitable for comfortable living.

The Gulf Stream
This temperature grace takes place in a vast region for a reason. It is directly related to ocean current Gulfstream. It is he who forms the climate and gives people the opportunity to enjoy warm weather almost all year round.

The Gulf Stream is a whole system of warm currents in the northern part of the Atlantic Ocean. Its total length covers a distance of 10 thousand kilometers from the sultry coast of Florida to the ice-covered islands of Svalbard and Novaya Zemlya. Huge masses of water begin their movement in the Strait of Florida. Their volume reaches 25 million cubic meters per second.

The Gulf Stream moves slowly and majestically along the east coast of North America and crosses 40°N. sh. Near the island of Newfoundland, it meets the Labrador Current. The latter carries cold waters to the south and causes warm water flows to turn east.

After such a collision, the Gulf Stream splits into two currents. One rushes north and turns into the North Atlantic Current. It is this that forms the climate in Western Europe. The remaining mass reaches the coast of Spain and turns south. Off the coast of Africa, it meets the North Tradewind Current and deviates west, ending its journey in the Sargasso Sea, from which it is within easy reach of the Gulf of Mexico. Then the cycle of huge masses of water is repeated.

This has been going on for thousands of years. Sometimes a mighty warm current weakens, slows down, reduces heat transfer, and then cold falls to the ground. An example of this is the Little Ice Age. Europeans observed it in the XIV-XIX centuries. Every heat-loving inhabitant of Europe has experienced on his own skin what a real frosty snowy winter.

True, before that, in the VIII-XIII centuries, there was a noticeable warming. In other words, the Gulf Stream was gaining strength and giving off a very large amount of heat into the atmosphere. Accordingly, in the lands European continent the weather was very warm, and snowy cold winters had not been observed for centuries.

Today, mighty warm water currents also affect the climate as in old times. Nothing has changed under the sun and the laws of nature have remained the same. That's just a man in his technical progress walked very far. His tireless activity provoked the greenhouse effect.

The result was the melting of the ice of Greenland and the Arctic Ocean. Huge masses of fresh water poured into salt water and headed south. Today, this situation is already beginning to affect the mighty warm current. Some experts predict that the Gulf Stream will soon stop, as it will not be able to cope with the influx of alien waters. This will entail a sharp cooling in Western Europe and on the east coast of North America.

The situation was aggravated biggest accident on the oil field Tiber in the Gulf of Mexico. Under water in the bowels of the earth, geologists have found huge reserves of oil, estimated at 1.8 billion tons. Experts drilled a well, the depth of which was 10,680 meters. Of these, 1259 meters were in the ocean water column. In April 2010, a fire broke out on an oil platform. It blazed for two days and claimed the lives of 11 people. But it was, though tragic, but a prelude to what happened after that.

The burnt platform sank, and oil began to flow out of the well into the open ocean. According to official sources, 700 tons of oil per day entered the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. However, independent experts named a different figure - 13.5 thousand tons per day.

A huge oil film in its area hampered the movement Atlantic waters, and this, accordingly, began to negatively affect heat transfer. Hence there was a violation in the circulation of the air currents of the Atlantic. They no longer had the strength to move east and form the usual mild climate there.

The result was a terrible heat wave in Eastern Europe in the summer of 2010, when the air temperature rose to 45° Celsius. provoked similar to the wind from North Africa. They, not meeting any resistance on their way, brought a hot and dry cyclone to the north. He hovered over a vast territory and stayed above it for almost two months, destroying all life.

At the same time, Western Europe was being shaken terrible floods, since the heavy, moisture-filled clouds coming from the Atlantic did not have enough strength to break through the dry and hot front. They were forced to dump tons of water on the ground. All this provoked a sharp rise in the level of rivers and, as a result, various catastrophes and human tragedies.

What are the immediate prospects, and what awaits old Europe in the near future? Experts say that the cardinal climate change will begin to be felt as early as 2015. Western Europe is waiting for a cooling and rising sea levels. This will provoke the impoverishment of the middle class, as it cash invested in real estate, which will plummet in value.

This will create political and social tensions in all sectors of society. The consequences of this can be the most tragic. It is simply impossible to predict something specific, since there are many scenarios for the development of events. Only one thing is clear: they are coming Hard times.

The Gulf Stream, today, due to global warming and the catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico, has practically closed in a ring and does not provide sufficient thermal energy to the North Atlantic Current. Accordingly, the air flow is disturbed. Above European territory completely different winds begin to dominate. The usual climatic balance is disturbed - this is already noticeable with a simple eye.

In such a situation, anyone can feel a sense of anxiety and hopelessness. Of course, not for the fate of hundreds of millions of people, since this is too vague and unclear, but for the specific fate of their relatives and friends. But to despair, and even more so to panic, is premature. How it will actually be - no one knows.

The future is full of surprises. It is not at all excluded that global warming is not at all like that. This is a normal rise in temperatures within the climate cycle. Its duration is 60 years. That is, for six decades the temperature on the planet has been steadily increasing, and for the next 60 years it is slowly decreasing. The beginning of the last cycle dates back to the end of 1979. It turns out that half of the way has already been passed and only 30 years are left to endure.

The Gulf Stream is too powerful a stream of water to simply change direction or disappear like that. There may be some failures and deviations, but they will never turn into global and irreversible processes. There are simply no prerequisites for this. At least not today.