How the World Ends

Global warming will continue to cause the artic shelf to deteriorate and huge chunks will continue to break off and into the ocean, dumping billions of gallons of fresh water into the waters, having a direct effect on the jet stream. The warm surface waters that head northward through the water current belt and are cooled, causing the water to become more dense and sink back into the ocean and circle back down south to become warm again will no longer gain the density because of the fresh water which is less dense mixing with the current waters. This will cause a disturbance in the current belt and the warm waters will no longer be recycled into the north, causing an arctic freeze that will continue to grow and travel southward, plunging much of the planet north of the equator into frigid temperatures. This will cause a dramatic decrease in crop production, causing famine throughout the planet. The only way to produce crops will be to keep things warm enough to grow. This will increase the demand on heating oil throughout the world, causing increased tension in nations that have little oil of their own. These nations will grow desperate and will do anything they can, to include invasion and war, to attempt to secure a source of oil which they can utilize. Oil production will increase to all new highs and many oil fields will be depleted, resulting in increased demand and decreased supply. Billions will die from starvation and famine related disease. Others will die in the resulting nuclear war from desperate nuclear weapon wielding nations. The United States will play a direct role in the safeguarding of the world's oil reserves, resulting in increased resentment from other nations. China, Russia, India, and the United States will be at war with each other. Billions more will die. There will be less than 1 billion people left on the planet by the time the missiles have fallen and the earth comes out of the next ice age. Those people will mostly be in southern Africa, Australia and southern South America. Communications will still be available thanks to all the satellites that currently orbit the planet. Resources will begin to replenish and foods are able to be grown again. This entire event will be a catastrophic event that will change the world forever. We will no longer use oil for heating or anything else. New technologies will have to be utilized and mankind will come to an end if none can be discovered. It will be a new dark ages.