Chapter 384: Danger
The screen cuts in.
A scholar-like figure stands on a podium with a projection behind him and a well-dressed audience below.
"Gentlemen, the Earth is about to enter the Ice Age! And that's exactly what we've been ignoring CO2 emissions for years! ”
"Wait a minute! Dr. Jack! Someone stood up and asked in a loud voice, "Carbon dioxide emissions cause the greenhouse effect!" It's common sense, why do you say the Earth is going into an ice age? Does this make sense?! ”
Dr. Jack pointed at him, "I was about to explain!" ”
He saw that the voices in the audience began to get louder, and quickly pressed with both hands to raise the volume: "The greenhouse effect causes the polar ice caps to melt, and the large amount of fresh water produced by the melting will cause huge changes in the seawater, the salt will be diluted, the water temperature will be reduced, and the ocean currents and seawater composition will change rapidly, which will cause drastic changes in the global climate." I'll explain the process right away! ”
He pressed on the slide, and a huge map of the world appeared on the curtain on the wall.
Dr. Jack turned, "Look at this picture, this warm current that affects the Northern Hemisphere is called the North Atlantic Warm Current. Also known as the North Atlantic Westerly Drift. It is the most powerful warm current in the northern Atlantic Ocean and a continuation of the warm current in the Gulf of Mexico.
It originates from the outer edge of the Newfoundland Shoal and divides into three branches around 50°N and 20°N: the main branch enters the Arctic Ocean through the Norwegian Sea, the southern branch flows south along the Bay of Biscay and the outer edge of the Iberian Peninsula, and the northern branch flows northwest to the south of Iceland.
The flow of the North Atlantic Stream varies with the intensity of the Gulf Current, and its flow value is 2×107~4×1.07 million cubic meters per second. ”
Dr. Jack said as he marked the map with a laser pointer with a red dot.
"This warm current has a significant warming and humidifying effect on the climate of Western and Northern Europe. Every kilometre of coast to Western and Northern Europe is equivalent to the amount of heat released by burning 60 million tonnes of coal.
The average temperature in January is 15~20 °C higher than that of the east coast of Asia and North America at the same latitude, so that the mixed forests and coniferous forests in Northern Europe are flourishing, and the southwestern part of the Barents Sea is not frozen all year round.
The melting of most of the glaciers in the Arctic and Antarctic has upset the balance of salinity in the seawater, affecting the direction and strength of ocean currents, and worst of all, blocking the North Atlantic Current. And much of the Northern Hemisphere's warm climate is brought about by the North Atlantic Current. Blocking it, the Northern Hemisphere will quickly return to colder climates.
Is it just getting cold?
No, it's worse! We still have to face the storm!
The hurricane at this time is different from ordinary tropical storms, it is an anticyclone, and a tropical storm is a cyclone. The direction of the anticyclonic air flow is from top to bottom, which can attract cold air from the upper atmosphere to the surface.
The temperature of the upper atmosphere is very low, which exacerbates the drop in surface temperature, and my judgment is that it drops to minus 50 degrees! With the combined action of tsunamis and ice storms, the earth will once again enter the ice age. Except for the equatorial region, there will no longer be a suitable place for human life on Earth! ”
As soon as Dr. Jack finished speaking, someone stood up and asked, "Even if a change in ocean currents could cause a storm, it would not have enough energy to destroy the structure of the Earth's atmosphere."
Do you know how stable the stratosphere and above are? Unless there is a very powerful energy change, such as a high-altitude nuclear explosion, there will generally be no obvious change. ”
"Professor Brown, the force of this storm is far greater than what you call a high-altitude nuclear explosion! … Wait a minute, you mean we did a high-altitude nuclear explosion?! ”
The screen stopped, zoomed out, and the guests in the studio were all full of shock.
"We should know about this movie, but now we want to ask, was this hurricane caused by a nuclear explosion?" Edwards asked.
"The hurricane should be before that!" One of the guests replied, "But it doesn't leave, there must be a special reason, but it is said that there is no nuclear radiation measured on the periphery at all, which is difficult to understand, and the White House cannot explain it at this point!" ”
Edwards looked at the tip board: "We combined the opinions of more than a hundred meteorologists, and everyone thought that one thing was very strange, it was this hurricane, which has almost no obvious eye now!" ”
"What is the eye of the storm?" Someone asked.
"It's the center of the cyclone, and the tropical cyclone has a center where the wind speed is almost zero, and in our satellite image, although this air mass is rotating, the center is in Los Angeles, but there is no eye there."
"How do you know there's no eye of the storm?"
"Because the one who came out of it said! In the past two days since the hurricane blew into Los Angeles, people have been coming out, and everyone said that it was windy and rainy,...... But it's very unscientific to have no eye for the show,...... "Edwards is just a host, that's all he can say, and fortunately, no one cares what he's talking about, what everyone cares about is the matter itself."
At this time, another guest also spoke: "This matter is definitely not as simple as it is said in the White House manuscript, the strange thing is that now is the era of self-media, and there is so much news coming out, I don't believe that there is no truth, but we can't find where it is!" ”
He picked up his phone: "Our president, his tweet hasn't been updated for six hours!" ”
"I'm sure he's more worried about his hair, and every time he deals with this kind of trouble, he has to lose at least a handful of ,......," the third guest joked, causing the studio to chuckle.
"I heard that baldness will become stronger, and I don't know if our president will get stronger and stronger, but the only thing I can believe is that there will be no fires in California this year!" Looking at the satellite cloud image, host Edwards said with a worried expression.
"Now the army and the local police have launched a series of measures,... Let's take a look at the reports from the ground......"
The picture turned and cut into a blank.
"Yes, they didn't give us any useful information, and they didn't let the reporters in." Edwards sighed, "The good news is that the rumored nuclear explosion does not exist!"
So we are here to appeal to the people of northern California, stay calm, there is no so-called nuclear dust spreading! Let's take a look at these photos again, which may or may not be useful...... In any case, it was indeed L.A. seven hours ago! ”
The screen cuts open, and Edwards looks at his phone, his eyes straightening.