‘Ominous’ CNN report: Vital ocean current system could collapse by 2025
Heather Hunter
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CNN’s chief climate correspondent, Bill Weir, reported on Wednesday that July’s heat wave has ocean water temperatures at record levels and cautioned that there is a looming “apocalyptic scenario” that may happen in the “big circulation system” in the Atlantic Ocean coming as early as 2025.
“Sixty-one Americans will see temperatures rise above 100 degrees over the next seven days. Over in Florida, heat is turning the ocean into something like a hot tub. The water temperatures are at record levels for July, and this has consequences all around the world,” CNN News Central anchor John Berman said on Wednesday.
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Weir then reported on the record-high triple-digit temperatures that have some scientists saying they are “seeing complete, total coral reef loss” and “bleaching in some areas” due to sensitive coral starving to death and turning white due to unprecedented high water temperatures.
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However, CNN does report that the “most significant concentration of coral isn’t located in the shallower Florida Bay, where the readings were taken.”
“All of this is a result of generations of heat-trapping gas and the atmosphere holding down as much extra heat every second as 10 Hiroshima-sized atomic bombs,” Weir explained.
He added, “The cold water has masked a lot of that obvious heat, but this year, obviously, you can’t ignore it anymore, and this is just the beginning of a trend that scientists worry could have half of the planet’s surface in a marine heat wave.”
“Sea creatures are facing stresses that are just off the charts right now,” Weir said.
The report by CNN’s chief climate correspondent dug deeper into “apocalyptic” predictions for the ocean.
“There is new science about a big circulation system in the Atlantic known as the ‘AMOC.’ This is a triangular-shaped conveyor belt that takes warm water from the Caribbean and up toward Canada and even to the U.K. that has been weakening as a result of Greenland shedding so much fresh water,” Weir reported.
Weir warned that if the AMOC shuts down, it will be “an apocalyptic scenario we’ve seen in movies like The Day After Tomorrow,” the 2004 film that depicted fictional catastrophic climatic effects in a series of extreme weather events.
“There is a tipping point that could happen as early as 2025 and as late as 2090. All of the signs point to warnings that we’re headed to that key, vital tipping point that must be avoided to preserve life as we know it on the planet,” CNN’s reporter said.
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Weir then reported on scientists in Miami “trying to save what corals they can” by removing them from the ocean and “bringing them into laboratories.”
Berman gasped at the end of Weir’s report, calling it “ominous.”