Gulf Stream

Its waters are cooler by three degrees to four degrees Fahrenheit than those of the ocean under the line, so that it moderates the heat of the tropics.

But the effects of the Gulf Stream on the climate of the North Atlantic Ocean are far more remarkable.

This most powerful of known currents has its source in the Gulf or Sea of Mexico, which, like the Mediterranean and other close seas in temperate or low latitudes, is warmer than the open ocean in the same parallels.

The temperature of the Mexican Sea in summer is, according to Rennell, 86 degrees Fahrenheit, or at least seven degrees above that of the Atlantic in the same latitude.

Rennell estimates the area of the recipient, together with that covered by the main current, as being 2,000 miles in length from east to west and 350 in breadth from north to south, which, he remarks, is a larger area than that of the Mediterranean.

The heat of this great body of water is kept up by the incessant and quick arrivals of fresh supplies of warm water from the south, and there can be no doubt that the general climate of parts of Europe and America is materially affected by this cause.

It is considered probable by Scoresby that the influence of the Gulf Stream extends even to the sea near Spitzbergen, where its waters may pass under those of melted ice, for it has been found that in the neighborhood of Spitzbergen the water is warmer by six or seven degrees at the depth of 100 and 200 fathoms than at the surface.

This might arise from the known law that fresh water passes the point of greatest density when cooled down below 40 degrees, and between that and the freezing point expands again.

The second Hall of Records was, and, and this is one of Cayce's most famous readings.

Um, he gave a reading in 1934 where he said that a portion of Atlantis would rise again in 1968 or 1969, and that a temple of the Poseidons, which was the Hall of Records- Could be found by making a survey to the south of Bimini, a geological survey to the south of Bimini in the Bahamas, uh, going along the Gulf Stream.

And he said that it was now underwater beneath the slime of ages.

Um, I made a film while we were there.

Made national news.

Uh, we had no desire whatsoever to look at what is called the Bimini Road, a J-shaped formation of large blocks of stone that it looks very unusual, just off the coast of Bimini.

But I will say the last, in 2012, my wife and I did, um, discover what really looks like a collapsed temple, uh, about 30 miles south of Bimini along the Gulf Stream in a very unusual area.

Um, it's made out of polished green schist.

There's a spike in temperature.

So it's theorized that what happened with the Younger Dryas impact... was that a comet hit, and this extraordinarily cold water got dunked into the Gulf Stream, really aggressively cooling the Earth, because the Gulf Stream transports warm water all around the oceans, the Atlantic.

Also,

that's actually an interesting bit about climate change that's happening right now, is something that not a lot of people are talking about, is the fact that as, like...

the changes that are occurring now warm us temporarily.

It's affecting the Gulf Stream's capability to bring warm water to the polar regions.

So though it would be a temporary warming, it would set us into another ice age.

At least based off of what a large portion of the science is saying right now.

You've told them you have something important and then you're giving them that space to process that.

Or maybe you just launch into a story and 10 seconds later, they're, they're out in the Gulf stream and a storm with you or, or you, in a storm on the side of Mount Everest or 18 miles into a marathon and running out of steam, whatever it is, it's put them into the story.

And then all of a sudden they are in your story.

They have forgotten that they're sitting in a chair next to a bunch of people.

And you are the guide.

You're not the hero of the story.

But if somebody's out on a boat in the Gulf Stream with me in a storm, And most people in my audiences are not blue water sailors.

And so they're looking to me to get safely out of that situation because they're there on the boat with me.

The source introduces the three specific global currents Equinox is prioritizing.

The Kuroshio Current off the coast of Japan, the Agulhas Current off South Africa, and their ultimate primary target, the American segment of the Gulf Stream.

The Gulf Stream is fundamentally different from a coastal tidal race.

It is a massive oceanic conveyor belt.

Right.

The article details that the Gulf Stream runs closest to the American coastline just off southeast Florida, specifically parallel to Broward and Palm Beach counties.

In this specific stretch, the water is only moving at roughly 3.5 to 5.5 miles per hour.

So significantly slower than the violent Alderney race.

It's absolutely gnarly.

They thought the weather would be the same as England because it's on the same latitude, but the way the Gulf Stream goes, it was completely freezing.

It was disaster.

And out of the wilderness, walks a Native American who speaks perfect English.

Hot air furnaces in dwellings heat the rooms by convection.

and hot-water systems heat in the same way to a large extent the gulf stream is a vast warm-water system that warms continents instead of rooms and dwellings the water of the ocean lying under the direct rays of the sun becomes heated and is set in motion probably by the rotation of the earth or possibly there is a combination of causes at work some have attributed this motion to the effect of the trade-winds but it is hard to believe that this is the case to any considerable extent at any rate currents are set up in different oceans the most notable of which is called the gulf stream as it apparently has its origin in the gulf of mexico at least it receives a fresh impetus at that point it follows along the atlantic coast as far as wilmington north carolina and it then crosses the atlantic enveloping england ireland and scotland thus modifying the climate of the whole of western europe clear to the north cape the land of the midnight sun the great harbor of hammerfest is free from ice all the year round although opening into the arctic ocean one of the industries of norway is agriculture and yet the northern part of norway is about as far north as the klondike in alaska at the klondike the temperatures go to seventy or eighty degrees below zero while at hammerfest the harbour is open the year round such is the effect of nature's mighty warm-water heating system the sun ninety million of miles away sends quivers of ether waves at the rate of about two hundred thousand miles per second which are arrested by the waters in the equatorial regions and here the ether waves become heat from there the warmed waters are distributed so as to affect the climate of a large part of the habitable globe the distribution of heat is by convection on a large scale another of nature's modes of distributing heat by convection is by means of air currents large bodies of heated air rise at the equator and flow each way north and south in the higher regions of the atmosphere That is to say, they would flow north and south if it were not for the Earth's motion.

This motion changes their direction somewhat.

These air currents flow northerly and southerly for a certain distance and gradually drop down.

it's funny because, yes, there was experimentation and operational usage of, you know, Tools that you would never consider for combat, and some of them are desperation measure, and probably one of the most famous ones in the Pacific, and we could do a whole episode on this, are balloon bombs by the Japanese sending them out.

I guess it's not the Gulf Stream.

It's one of those streams, though.

What is it?