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EAR 203 Name: ____________________________ Date: _________________________ Block: _____ EAR 203 EARTH SYSTEM SCIENCESYRACUSE UNIVERSITY VIDEO – THE GULF STREAM AND THE NEXT ICE AGE (2007) DISCUSSIONIn the battle against climate change there is no enemy to fight, just our attitudes. - Nicolas Koutsikas, Director. Climate change is hot on international political and social agenda. Our climate is changing, with industrial production, habitat, transport and everyday human activities acknowledged as causes of global warming. The Gulf Stream and the Next Ice Age is a documentary which explores the results of an American government report that suggests that collapse of thermohaline circulation will take place around the year 2010 and impose a minor ice age on Europe. Could Dublin acquire a climate like Spitzberg, and London like that of Siberia? The Gulf Stream is a powerful surface current, driven by the Trade Winds. The Gulf Stream originates in the Gulf of Mexico and it carries the tropical waters through the Florida Strait to the Great Banks of the United States, where it heads eastward, carrying its warm waters to the borders of the North Atlantic. As soon as the tropical waters hit the Arctic Ocean, they cool abruptly and plunge towards the abyssal zone to form a loop, known as "thermohaline circulation." Then, like an immense conveyor belt that slows down in the ocean depths, it sets out again southward to rejoin the beginning of the Gulf Stream. The Gulf Stream and the Next Ice Age (http://topdocumentaryfilms.com/gulf-stream-next-ice-age/) is about the consequences of global warming on The Great Atlantic Conveyor, which regulates climate, and the fear that the melting of ice will stop it, perhaps triggering an ice age. PROCEDURE After viewing the documentary, construct a system diagram relating the Gulf Stream to the development of an Ice Age. Use as many climatic links as you see fit. Directory: cms -> lib04 -> NJ01001488 -> Centricity -> Domain -> 216 lib04 -> Neptune high school lib04 -> [3rd Grade Writing Scope and Sequence] lib04 -> Special Events Date lib04 -> Lovett Elementary’s 2014-2015 Accelerated Reader Policy lib04 -> Strategies for Enhancement and Intervention Differentiation of Instruction lib04 -> W. C. Handy composed the blues classic "St. Louis Woman" lib04 -> Chapter summary lib04 -> In 1890 what device did the us census use to tabulate the Census? What company built it and how did it work? lib04 -> Luke: the brain Danielle: she never stands up for herself Anna 216 -> Syracuse university Download 7.76 Kb. Share with your friends:
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