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Why some scientists are worried about a surprisingly cold ‘blob’ in the North Atlantic
washingtonpost ^ | 24 Sept 2015 | By Chris Mooney

Posted on 09/28/2015 6:22:55 PM PDT by 11th_VA

It is, for our home planet, an extremely warm year.

Indeed, last week we learned from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that the first eight months of 2015 were the hottest such stretch yet recorded for the globe’s surface land and oceans, based on temperature records going back to 1880. It’s just the latest evidence that we are, indeed, on course for a record-breaking warm year in 2015.

Yet, if you look closely, there’s one part of the planet that is bucking the trend. In the North Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland and Iceland, the ocean surface has seen very cold temperatures for the past eight months:

What’s up with that?

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At this point, it’s time to ask what the heck is going on here. And while there may not yet be any scientific consensus on the matter, at least some scientists suspect that the cooling seen in these maps is no fluke but, rather, part of a process that has been long feared by climate researchers — the slowing of Atlantic Ocean circulation...

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TOPICS: Extended News; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: amo; atlantic; atlanticoscillation; climatechange; climatechangefraud; coldspot; conveyor; currents; globalwarming; globalwarminghoax; greenland; iceland; oceans; oceantemps
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1 posted on 09/28/2015 6:22:55 PM PDT by 11th_VA
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2 posted on 09/28/2015 6:23:27 PM PDT by 11th_VA ("We're not gonna take it ANYMORRRRRE !!!")
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It’ll be the end of the world unless we give trillions of dollars to turd world crap holes!


3 posted on 09/28/2015 6:26:41 PM PDT by Blood of Tyrants (There's a right to gay marriage in the Constitution but there is no right of an unborn baby to life.)
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it’s still global climate warming change. no matter what, it’s global climate warming change.


4 posted on 09/28/2015 6:27:08 PM PDT by JohnBrowdie (http://forum.stink-eye.net)
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Countdown to “It’s glacier melt from global warming” in 3, 2, 1...


5 posted on 09/28/2015 6:28:24 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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6 posted on 09/28/2015 6:29:14 PM PDT by Snickering Hound
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That one cold spot in the N Atlantic is going to require at least a billion dollars in research money - c’mon, get with the program! /s


7 posted on 09/28/2015 6:30:24 PM PDT by Ken522
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If you are a journalist for WAPO you have probably never heard of the Atlantic Multidecadal Oscillation or the Pacific Decadal Oscillation so, you call it a blob and attribute it to, “science”.

Basically; ocean temperature trends which vary over decades and are critically important to climatology. If these should both turn cold at the same time the global warming crowd will need to start recycling (hyping) the ice ball earth crap from the 70”s again.


8 posted on 09/28/2015 6:30:55 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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9 posted on 09/28/2015 6:32:04 PM PDT by Phillyred
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So is this raw data, or has it been “adjusted” for calibration errors, precision & accuracy changes in sensors, land use, population changes. ... and whatever other factors they have to apply to get the results they need to support their agenda.


10 posted on 09/28/2015 6:32:22 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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Test it for salinity, seriously. That’ll shut down the inevitable glacier melt theory.


11 posted on 09/28/2015 6:32:29 PM PDT by RegulatorCountry
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ping


12 posted on 09/28/2015 6:32:30 PM PDT by outofsalt ( If history teaches us anything it's that history rarely teaches us anything.)
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It's starting!


13 posted on 09/28/2015 6:34:40 PM PDT by Rebelbase
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http://www.science20.com/news_articles/new_ice_age_is_coming_by_2030_says_analysis-156558


14 posted on 09/28/2015 6:37:08 PM PDT by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said the goal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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The receding glaciation around Greenland is the result of warm water not ingressing into the temperature differentiations in the gradient underlying the movement of ocean waters over a vast surface of the ocean surrounding Greenland that results in the lack of distinguishing the two gradients that causes temperatures to be unevenly distributed, resulting in the defying of the physical properties of cold water and hot water caused by a lack of salinity brought on by large amounts of fresh water invading the area because of global warming heat meeting cold and not mixing adequately to cause amelioration of the lack of circulation of warm water over cold. See? Ya know?

In other words, George Bush did it.

IMHO


15 posted on 09/28/2015 6:38:18 PM PDT by ripley
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I didn’t know Hillary was sailing in the North Atlantic.


16 posted on 09/28/2015 6:38:24 PM PDT by dforest
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I’m betting if you add the top quarter and the bottom quarter, (that don’t have temperatures documented) you may have colder temperature that average out the “hotter” temperatures around the belt of the planet.


17 posted on 09/28/2015 6:39:14 PM PDT by 9422WMR ("Ignorance can be cured by education, but stupidity is forever.")
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Warm phase of the Atlantic multidecadal oscillation has passed and will be moving to cool phase. Michael Mann knows it, he just a denier!


18 posted on 09/28/2015 6:41:23 PM PDT by Bulwinkle (Alec, a.k.a. Daffy Duck)
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Hottest? I think we had the mildest summer I can remember in a while for S Texas. We had very few over 100 day streaks.


19 posted on 09/28/2015 6:43:03 PM PDT by eartick (Been to the line in the sand and liked it)
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So as the Northern Atlantic and Central Atlantic oceans reach an equilibrium point no more gradient exists and the poles can again get colder and the tropics can get warmer? What kind of sorcery is this?


20 posted on 09/28/2015 6:43:25 PM PDT by LukeL
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