Recent data shows that Greenland has been losing 30 million tons of ice per hour, 20% higher than thought.

The ice loss in Greenland is equivalent to the volume of the Empire State Building turning into a lake every two minutes.

As it continues, all calculations and modeling show that this meltwater will cause the collapse of the globally important North Atlantic Ocean current, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), with severe consequences for humanity.

Let Dennis Quaid explain in this clip from the 20-year-old disaster movie ”The Day After Tomorrow” (1:22) how Greenland meltwater will upend the world’s climate.

We experience that cause and effect are often proportional, or linear, up to a certain point. For example, when we put a kettle with boiling water outside, it will cool to ambient temperature. However, something dramatic happens when the temperature reaches 32 F (0 degrees Celsius): liquid water becomes ice.

Given what we know about ice formation, it would be CRAZY to assume that steady increases in the Earth’s temperature will have only proportional effects.

Climate scientists refer to sudden changes to rising global air and ocean temperatures as “tipping points,” a word that does not capture the severity of the consequences of many of these tipping points.