Picture the world 100 or 200 years from now. What are you imagining? Hotter temperatures, melting glaciers or alpine places without snow? With heatwaves happening across Europe this summer, it’s not that hard to visualise.
Now picture Europe in a deep freeze where temperatures hit -20°C in London. Both of these scenarios might be the future we’re heading for, thanks to climate change. And there’s an even more worrying indicator: while almost the entire planet has been warming, there’s one patch in the North Atlantic Ocean just south of Greenland where temperatures have been falling.
Scientists call it the “cold blob”, and some think it could be a warning that one of Earth’s most important climate systems is beginning to change and may soon hit a tipping point where climate change no longer happens gradually. If this system flips, it could have devastating consequences that change all of our lives as we know them.
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0:00 A Tipping Point in the North Atlantic
7:45 A Cold Blob Inside Earth’s Heat Engine
17:12 The Dawn of a New Ice Age
26:29 Can We Engineer a Solution?
29:39 The Point of No Return
32:30 The Choice for Future Generations
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