The 2004 film "The Day After Tomorrow" is one of the science-fiction film created by Hollywood. Hollywood seldom obtains anything accurate with its Sci-Fi movies but it may be right this time.
University of Southampton researchers developed a scientific study based on climate scenarios that was featured in the movie "The Day After Tomorrow".
The film depicts a story of climate warming caused by an unexpected melt down of the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (AMOC), which leads to disastrous events like tornados, floods and hemisphere freezing. These scenes of the movie received some criticisms from climate scientists and it affected the scientific reliability of the film.
Climate scientists criticized the scene of the abrupt collapse of AMOC, as an end result of anthropogenic greenhouse warming, and this scenario was never evaluated with an up to date climate model.
Researchers used a German climate model ECHAM at the Max-Planck Institute in Hamburg, during the process of the study Sybren Drijfhout found out that in a span of 20 years the earth will chill instead of being warm when a global warming and a collapse of AMOC will occur at the same time. And because AMOC doesn't collapse, global warming continues with an average temperature offset of about 0.8 degree C.
Drijfhout said that it will take about 40 years in order to normalize the temperature because our planet is recovering from the AMOC collapse if global warming will still continue at existing rates. But it will take over a century in the place close to the eastern boundary of North Atlantic.
On the other hand, the study declares that the current phase of the awfully weak warming cannot be credited to just one single source. Presumably, El Niño has a role and perhaps also changes in the Southern Ocean because of shifting and increasing westerlies.
