"male narrator:" "The human race is under attack from the most devastating weather disaster to ever strike the modern world." " The magnitude of something like this is a game-changer for the entire planet." "narrator:" "Blizzards, hurricanes, wildfires, massive floods, hellish destruction that can only be caused by one phenomenon, the shutdown of the world's ocean currents." " You screw with an ocean weather system, the climate goes out of control." " [screaming] [dramatic music]" " It is the end of the world as we know it." "narrator:" "Will you be ready... when doomsday strikes?" "Can any of us survive?" "♪ ♪" "Ocean currents control our climate by transferring heat and moisture from the water into our atmosphere, thereby influencing temperatures around the world." "♪ ♪ 12,000 years ago, as the last ice age was ending, the global ocean currents shut down, and much of the world slipped back into a deep freeze that lasted for over a thousand years." "♪ ♪" "If the ocean currents shut down today, what would happen to our planet?" "Could we survive?" "♪ ♪" " This isn't some far-flung fictional thing." "[all screaming]" "This is the beginning of a global climactic shift that is almost too much to survive." "It'll be a very slow, painful, horrible death." " It's not a question of if it will happen." "It's almost certainly a question of when." "[dramatic music]" "♪ ♪ narrator:" "Boston's Fenway Park." "♪ ♪" "Red Sox fans are enjoying the game... when suddenly... the oldest ballpark in the U.S." "is hit with a deluge of water." "[all yelling]" " This is beyond bad weather." "♪ ♪" "Boston will be wiped off the map." "♪ ♪" "The entire eastern seaboard is going to drown." "♪ ♪" "narrator:" "The destruction in Boston is the result of a catastrophe scarier than anything mankind has ever faced, one that begins decades earlier." "In 2015, scientists discover that something disastrous is happening to the system of ocean currents known as the global ocean conveyor belt." " The global ocean conveyor belt is the circulation system of the Earth's oceans." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "The main driver of the global ocean conveyor belt happens in the north Atlantic." "Like a giant factory conveyor belt, warm water moves from the tropical equator to the northern Atlantic Ocean, where it turns cold, salty, and dense." "This denser water then sinks and flows south along the sea floor, enabling the warmer water to continually flow above it from the tropics." "The cold water travels through all the world's oceans until it mixes with warmer water and returns to the north Atlantic to repeat the cycle." " Like the blood vessels in your body that transport nutrients all throughout your system, large currents transport energy and heat all throughout the ocean." "narrator:" "The ocean currents are vitally important because they distribute heat that affects the climate around the world." " 700 light bulbs per person per year could be continuously lit by just that amount of heat transported by the ocean." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "But now, an international scientific expedition makes a startling discovery in the north Atlantic." "Because of global warming, melting ice in Greenland has flooded the surface of the ocean with fresh water, diluting its saltiness so it doesn't sink anymore." "Without the motion of this sinking water, the conveyor belt has stopped completely." "♪ ♪" " The oceans drive weather systems." "You screw with an ocean weather system, the climate goes out of control, and then it kills you." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "And this unleashes a chain of disasters, a domino effect." "Some will strike quickly." "Others will take years, even decades to unfold." " You would think you're just flooding the north Atlantic with a little fresh water, no big deal, but a very delicate web that's been woven, and breaking one strand could have a catastrophic effect across the globe." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "At first nobody notices the effects of the ocean current shutdown." "Life goes on as normal." "♪ ♪" "But six months later the disaster surfaces." "People in northern Europe are the first to suffer the wrath." "They typically live in a mild climate year-round thanks to the heat released from warm surface currents in the Atlantic, but without this hot air, a cold Arctic blast assaults the region." "♪ ♪" " You'll have much colder wind dropping down from northern latitudes, and the climate will begin shifting dramatically, especially in Europe." " Without warm water continuously flowing into northern Europe, temperatures will begin to drop." "[dramatic music]" "♪ ♪ narrator:" "The effects of the deep freeze quickly ripple around the world." "♪ ♪" "A cargo ship from New York is headed for Hamburg, Germany, the second-largest port in Europe, but the harbor is iced in." "The head of the Port Authority orders icebreakers to free up the ships." "This is the worst winter he and people across the northern hemisphere have ever experienced." "♪ ♪" "Intense blizzards bring hurricane-force winds and mountains of snow." " The snowstorms would be dropping feet of snow an hour, and the general temperatures being around 27 degrees Fahrenheit, that will freeze very fast and very hard." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "A tourist heading for Paris is caught off guard by sudden whiteout conditions." "♪ ♪" "Emergency services can't get through the snow to help him or dozens of other trapped victims." "Now the cold becomes a killer." " Hypothermia's terrifying." "It's when your core temperature gets too low for your body to sustain itself." "Your muscles start to cramp." "You start to get labored breathing." "You will actually run a fever as your body is trying to keep your body alive, and then your core temperature will crash." "Your body is shutting down 'cause it's too cold, and you will literally freeze to death." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "Northern Europe is doomed to remain in a deep freeze, and the death toll will continue to rise." "Meanwhile, the climate disaster spreads across the Atlantic to the U.S." "In Massachusetts Bay, freezing air rushing down from the north Atlantic stirs up a major storm front." "♪ ♪" "A family of lobstermen is headed out to sea when they get the alert." "[beeping]" "♪ ♪" "100 miles wide, 85-mile-an-hour winds, it's a Nor'easter unlike anything the lobstermen have ever experienced." "♪ ♪" "Normally they hit between autumn and early spring, but this Nor'easter comes in the middle of summer." "♪ ♪" " We would be having increased frequency and intensity of Nor'easters affecting us here in Boston... ♪ ♪ and those would be occurring with much greater strength." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "The super storm sweeps through Boston, inundating the city with 15 feet of icy seawater." "It swamps the subways and turns streets into rivers." "Thousands escape the flooding by moving to higher ground, but some people in Boston are all but helpless as they're dragged to their deaths." "♪ ♪" " It's a huge, terrifying catastrophe." "You have the complete collapse of a society on both a local and global scale." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "From Boston to northern Europe, as images of the catastrophe spread, people around the world brace themselves for the worst by fortifying shelters and stockpiling food, water, and other essential supplies, but will it be enough?" "Can anyone on Earth survive the deadliest disaster in human history?" "♪ ♪" "narrator:" "Global ocean currents, which regulate heat and rainfall around the world, have shut down, unleashing violent changes in the weather on both sides of the Atlantic." "Frigid temperatures paralyze much of the northeastern U.S." "In Boston, freak storms flood the city, leaving tens of thousands homeless and many more dead." "Meanwhile in Europe, the area first affected by the ocean current shutdown, death by hypothermia is becoming a daily event." "As the crisis deepens, what will happen to humanity?" "Can we survive?" "[dramatic music]" "♪ ♪" "A year into this catastrophic new weather pattern, the people of New York City now face the wrath." "♪ ♪" "Off the coast, a massive cyclone, twice the size and strength of 2012's Hurricane Sandy, roars inland." "Monster winds and waves slam into the Statue of Liberty and then barrel towards shore." "♪ ♪" " A storm twice as powerful as Sandy is not even conceivable." "This is destruction on a massive scale." "narrator: 30-foot waves and 100-mile-per-hour winds explode through windows and doors, tearing buildings apart at the seams and dragging people deeper underwater." "♪ ♪" " You have rain, wind, chaos, panic, and disorder all assaulting a city at once." "It would be panic in the streets." "Some people will be able to survive, but unless you have the resources and you have the wherewithal, you won't." "The best thing to do would be to get out." "narrator:" "And while the northeastern U.S." "is battered by super storms," "♪ ♪ the apocalyptic effects of this disaster start traveling south." "The next target is Brazil." "Locals are enjoying the beaches of Copacabana and Ipanema when suddenly the weather turns violent." "[dramatic music]" "♪ ♪" "narrator:" "Monsoons and 75-mile-per-hour winds rage ashore." "♪ ♪" "As the storm surges through the city of Rio de Janeiro, it becomes a death trap for locals and tourists who are violently pulled under the swift-moving water." "♪ ♪" "And as people flee for higher ground, they face another killer." "[all screaming]" "Storm water rapidly collects on the steep slope of the Serrana Mountains." "The water-soaked ground loosens, creating an 80-foot swell of mud, rocks, and water." "♪ ♪" "The landslide flattens the shanty slums that cling to the mountainside." "Thousands of people are buried alive." "♪ ♪" "As the climate catastrophe ripples around the world, it finally reaches the Pacific Ocean, where the shallow coastal water is now unusually hot due to the shutdown of the ocean currents." " Whenever we have warmer water, we tend to have stronger hurricanes or typhoons that form there 'cause they really get their energy from the warm surface water, and if that is warming up, there's gonna be more energy to power those big storms." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "In Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, a group of American tourists run for their lives as a category five hurricane slams ashore with 60-foot waves and 165-mile-per-hour winds." "♪ ♪" "The vacationers' desperate cries for help are barely heard over the turbulent storm water that pulls them out to sea." "♪ ♪" " Puerto Vallarta will be ripped apart by a constant barrage of super cyclones." "These are massive storms that will just walk right over the peninsula and wipe out cities." "They will be gone." "It's not just, "A cyclone hit." "We can rebuild."" "It's, "Oh, a cyclone hit, and here comes another one, and there's one after that."" "narrator:" "Puerto Vallarta is merely the latest victim as towns, villages, and cities from Central to South America get buried under water." "♪ ♪" "As the effects of the ocean current shutdown spread around the world, no place is immune from this disaster which has already killed over tens of thousands of people." "But these catastrophes are just the beginning." "There's a new threat to our survival emerging at the bottom of the world." "narrator:" "The ocean conveyor belt of currents that help regulate temperatures around the globe has come to a grinding halt with consequences that are threatening our very existence." "[dramatic music]" "♪ ♪" "A decade into the disaster, the shutdown of the ocean currents has set off a series of extreme weather disasters across the world from super storms and severe drought to massive hurricanes and blizzards." "Nearly a half-billion people have already died." "As the death toll climbs, temperatures continue to plunge in the cold regions of North American and northern Europe." "♪ ♪" "With warm ocean currents no longer flowing up to the north Atlantic, the surface water remains cold, creating frigid temperatures across northern Europe with winters that last for ten months." "♪ ♪" "Snow falls relentlessly in Germany." "The head of the country's busiest seaport once used giant icebreakers to get ships into port, but it's no longer possible to keep up with the deep freeze, and the vital transportation hub shuts down." "♪ ♪" "Delivery of food and other resources grinds to a halt." "People suffering from cold weather afflictions like pneumonia and frostbite begin to overrun hospitals." " Frostbite is the physical freezing of your tissue to the point where it can no longer sustain itself, and then it rots." "And then it gets to a point where the skin begins to turn black, and the only thing you can do to save it from spreading is to cut your fingers off, or you can wait, and they'll fall off themselves." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "While Hamburg and other cities in northern Europe freeze... ♪ ♪ in the southern United States it's a completely different scene, a deadly heat wave." "Over time the stalled ocean currents have warmed the atmosphere and driven away the rain belt, creating a severe drought." "Smoke now fills the skies above the Texas panhandle as the surrounding dried-up corn fields become a vast tinderbox for wildfires." " The decrease in atmospheric moisture creates much drier conditions at the surface, and you could have large-scale fires, and that introduces a lot of soot and a lot of material into the atmosphere, and it can be hazardous to human health." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "People try to evacuate to safer areas, but thousands become trapped as flames and smoke engulf homes." "♪ ♪" " This isn't something a large military-grade fire department would be able to handle." "Communities will be cut off and surrounded by flame." "This isn't easily escapable." "You've got fire raging across states, across state borders." "You have tornadoes of fire forming." "This is bad." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪ narrator:" "In ten years nearly 1/10 of the world's population has perished, and the survivors cling to life as the planet continues to be rocked by widespread catastrophes." "♪ ♪" "And now the research scientists who first confirmed the shutdown of the ocean currents in the north Atlantic have a new cause for alarm." "They take their research vessel to the South Pole." "The bottom of the planet is heating up." " When the conveyor belt shuts down, the heat has to go somewhere that was going to the north Atlantic." "It's going to the south." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "An enormous set of glaciers is rapidly melting." "They're part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, a mass of ice 2 miles thick and as big as the entire state of Texas." "♪ ♪" " When the warm water comes underneath these glaciers and starts to melt away at these pinning points, it's gonna raise global oceans." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "Despite being nearly 8,000 miles away," "Miami is among the first cities to feel the impact of the rising seas." "Most of the metropolitan area is only 6 feet above sea level." "On the streets people are forced to walk knee-deep in polluted salt water and then return to their homes that have been flooded." "♪ ♪" "New Orleans, New York, and Boston are in equally dire straits." "With so many places becoming uninhabitable, is there anywhere left on Earth to escape this disaster?" "narrator:" "Ocean currents control the climate around the world by regulating heat and rainfall." "If they ever stop moving, scientists predict decades of cataclysmic weather events that will threaten our very existence." "Could you survive?" "[dramatic music]" "15 years after the shutdown of the global ocean currents, nearly half a billion people are dead." "For survivors everywhere, it's a constant battle against storms, starvation, and disease." "And there's no end in sight." "♪ ♪" " This is a change that is not gonna stop after weeks or months or years." "This is something that is decades to centuries worth of changes." "♪ ♪" " This is a global climactic shift that is almost too much to survive." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "In the American Southwest a severe drought has ravaged the area." "Fire departments can no longer contain the wildfires that continue to burn through cities... and states." "♪ ♪" "Another victim is the Colorado River." "It once was the lifeblood of the region, supplying hydroelectric power and providing water for millions of people." "Now it's running dry." " If there's no snow pack and no rainfall, the Colorado River starts to dry up." "The Colorado River also has a hydroelectric dam." "The human condition is dependent on things like electricity and water." "You take one of those away and things fall apart." "narrator:" "Without water, crops and cattle have long since died off, and people are struggling to hang on." " With a lower percentage of the Earth's land area receiving ample amounts of rain, you have starvation on the very short horizon." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "The United States isn't the only country reeling from the effects of the endless drought." "On the other side of the world, without the annual monsoon rains," "India's ground water reserves drain down to zero." "♪ ♪" "A human will die after three days without water, so it's a resource worth fighting for." " The significant changes in climate are going to inevitably lead to wars and battles as people are struggling to possess more precious resources..." " [shouting in foreign language]" " Or expand their territory in order to feed their populations." "[dramatic music]" "♪ ♪" " When food is scarce, societies tend to come apart." "♪ ♪" "People can't get food." "They rebel quite often." "narrator:" "While an endless drought is driving the population of India to the brink of starvation... ♪ ♪" "3,500 miles away the people of northern Europe are losing their battle with the endless cold." " You have concrete." "You have roads." "You have buildings, pipes, all of these things that will just slowly corrode." "The weight of the snow over so long can destroy even the most robust building." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "The former head of Hamburg's Port Authority and his family are just a few of the millions migrating to southern Spain and Greece in search of warmer temperatures." "As people seek refuge, there's also a mass exodus in Brazil, India, and the northeastern United States." " Once we start to have mass migrations, this means that governments will begin to collapse." "We could have total chaos like we already see in certain parts of the world." " You can't just take an entire population of a country and drop them somewhere and go," ""Nope, we're going to be fine."" "The planet will slowly squeeze us into pockets of instability and then kill us." "narrator:" "Will the climate refugees survive, or are they leaving behind one disaster only to face another?" "narrator:" "The shutdown of the global ocean conveyor belt has stopped the ocean currents from flowing, causing an extreme cooling of the north Atlantic and a warming effect in the world's southern oceans, setting in motion a cascade of disasters across the world." "Is there any safe place left on Earth?" "[dramatic music]" "♪ ♪" "Across the globe, hundreds of millions of people flee their homes in search of food, water, and a livable climate." "It's a mass migration of climate refugees that's unparalleled in history." " We're talking entire nations or entire continents that might be forced to migrate from one location to another." "How do we handle such a significant change in where people live?" "How do we feed them?" "How do we shelter them?" "♪ ♪ narrator:" "The crisis cuts across boundaries of class and wealth." "♪ ♪" "A man who once ran one of the largest ports in Europe... ♪ ♪ dies as a ragged refugee thousands of miles from his home." "♪ ♪" "♪ ♪ narrator:" "As the death toll mounts worldwide, another disaster is brewing in the South Pole." "A buildup of heat in the southern ocean has been eating away at the glaciers that are part of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet." "As they rapidly melt, sea levels rise, and now every coastal city in the world is under threat." "♪ ♪" " Year after year after year the water is getting closer to my front door, until finally the water is inside your home." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "In the U.S. a storm surge is approaching Miami." "It's high tide and a full moon, exactly the same conditions as when super storm Sandy struck the eastern seaboard in 2012." "♪ ♪" "But now even regular tides are over 4 feet higher because of the rise in sea levels." "♪ ♪" "It's the worst night in Miami's history." "♪ ♪" "On the streets people are overtaken by the churning seawater." "♪ ♪" "Some find temporary refuge... ♪ ♪ but with the entire city in crisis, emergency crews can't reach them all." "♪ ♪" "Many who escape drowning will die of hunger and lack of drinking water." "Others will never be found." "♪ ♪" " Any kind of coastal city will have a massive problem if there's sea level rise." "If you don't have the infrastructure in place to begin combating that, it will just keep coming." "Smart people would move out of those cities." "You have to adapt or die." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "From Miami to Rio and London, as sea levels continue to rise across the world, humanity will be put to the ultimate test." "The next wave of destruction could mark the end of modern civilization." "narrator:" "It's the year 2101." "Global ocean currents, which help regulate temperatures around the world, have long since shut down, unleashing over eight decades of violent and cataclysmic weather events that have changed the course of history." "Is there any chance of survival for the future generations?" "Can we adapt, or is mankind's fate sealed?" "[dramatic music]" "♪ ♪" "In almost every corner of the world, humanity is barely hanging on through the worst climate crisis since the dawn of civilization." "Famine and natural disasters have killed nearly 2 billion people." "♪ ♪" "Mass migrations are igniting civil wars." "♪ ♪" " It is the end of the world as we know it." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "And the global catastrophe continues to unfold in west Antarctica, where massive glaciers are rapidly melting into the ocean." "♪ ♪" "Sea levels are now over 7 feet higher than normal, and they continue to rise." " Every coastal city on the planet will be experiencing sea level rises of this magnitude." "♪ ♪" " The coastlines of the world have to be rewritten and redrawn." " Amsterdam would be gone." "Venice would be gone." "These cities would not exist anymore other than in postcards and if you liked scuba diving." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "Miami, Florida, which has already been beaten and battered by titanic super storms, now vanishes into the Atlantic Ocean, along with most of the southeastern part of the state." "♪ ♪" "The entire northeastern seaboard of the U.S." "is forever changed." "New York is now the Venice of the 22nd century." "Lower Manhattan has been transformed into canals where water taxis transport the rich to walled-off buildings with entrances safely above the rising tides." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "Over 200 miles to the north in Boston... ♪ ♪ baseball games become a symbol of defiance, proof that life goes on in spite of climate change, so the bleachers at Fenway Park are still packed, but the famous ballpark," "once over 1/2 mile from the water's edge, is now a riverfront stadium due to sea level rise." "♪ ♪" "In the harbor, Boston tries to defend itself against the swelling waters of the Atlantic with levees and sea walls, but the city engineers have underestimated just how high sea levels will continue to rise." " The ocean is not going to put up with a sea wall narrator:" "And so when the most powerful Nor'easter in decades strikes Boston, the waves breach the city's barriers." "♪ ♪" "Millions of gallons of water rush through Boston's shoreline of bays, inlets, and rivers." " A big storm comes along, breaches the sea wall." "You've now turned a city into, effectively, a big bowl." "The same wall that was there to protect is now gonna keep the water inside." "♪ ♪ narrator:" "Fenway Park cannot hold back the surging sea water as the never-ending cycle of apocalyptic weather strikes again." "♪ ♪ [all screaming]" "♪ ♪ narrator:" "This frightening view of the future, with our ocean currents coming to a complete standstill, is based on science from the present." "Scientists have been warning that the global ocean conveyor belt may be slowing down." "For well over a century, the Earth has been steadily warming." "Experts claim 2016 was the hottest year on record for the entire planet, but at the same time, there were also record cold temperatures in the north Atlantic." "This suggests that as global warming continues to melt Arctic ice into the sea, this fresh water is making the cold surface currents less salty and dense so that they can't sink." "Without this natural process, the world's ocean currents could eventually shut down." "♪ ♪" " We're seeing that right now." "That is ongoing." "Look at the Greenland ice sheet." "It's not only melting more, but it's melting faster, so this is a concern because that then would provide the large amounts of fresh water to the north Atlantic Ocean to cause a shutdown." "♪ ♪" " To halt or slow down the global ocean conveyor belt, the magnitude of something like this occurring is a game-changer for the entire planet." "It's so much energy, so massive of a change, humans will have to adapt to survive." "They will not be able to change to make things back to where they were." "♪ ♪" " This isn't some far-flung fictional thing." "A climate catastrophe is what we are facing right now." "♪ ♪" "And unless we do something soon to prolong our way of life, we have to begin to evolve or die." "♪ ♪" " With sea level rise it's not a question of if it will happen." "It's almost certainly a question of when." ".srt Extracted, Resynced by Dan4Jem, AD.MMXVII.I"