The Gulf Stream is a key provider of the warmth that keeps the UK and other nations in Europe warmer than countries on equal latitudes. It keeps summers warm and winters mild. If it were to collapse, there is the potential countries such as the UK could match its weather patterns of countries such as Canada. This could have catastrophic effects for not only the agricultural industry and economy but also for the ecosystem found within North western Europe.

Given the news of rapidly changing ocean changes due to many factors which range from CO2 emissions and its consequences, reduction of oceanic SO2 emissions by commercial freighters and changes in the ocean stream patterns, it is likely we could see some kind of shift in the Atlantic streams. Will this include the collapse of the Gulf Stream as we know it today?