Atlantic Ocean Current Visualization
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA)
2004 film the day after tomorrow While we may have taken some pretty artistic liberties with the climate science, we do get one thing right: climate change will indeed cause the disruption of global ocean currents, with potentially catastrophic consequences.
At the time this Hollywood blockbuster was made, researchers knew very little about the state of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning (AMOC), the ocean system that carries warm water and nutrients around the Atlantic Ocean.
But there were concerns that the ice would melt…
