Posted on 09/04/2025 5:31:47 PM PDT by yesthatjallen
It is something like central heating for north-west Europe: the North Atlantic circulation ensures that the winters are milder than elsewhere in northern latitudes. It brings warm water from the tropics up to the North Atlantic in the upper ocean layers. The warm surface of the sea in front of the European coasts heats up the atmosphere. This mild air flows to us and ensures a temperate climate.
However, there are increasing indications that climate change is turning this heating off slowly but irrevocably. The Atlantic current is one of the tipping points of the global climate system - among other things, the thawing polar ice is turning off its decisive drive. Climate researchers from the Netherlands, Great Britain and Germany have now published a study in which they simulate this process with climate models of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (Climaterates) up to 2100.
Tilting point is closer than assumed
A collapse of the ocean current is much more likely than previously assumed, says physicist Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research. "Although only after 2100, the process begins much earlier. So the tipping point has actually already been reached in many of the models in the next one to two decades."
According to these calculations, the current would be weakened in the next ten to twenty years to such an extent that the process becomes irreversible - far before the sea circulation could collapse completely in the coming century. Then it would become cooler in our latitudes despite global warming. Either especially in winter, if it is still possible to mitigate climate change. Or the effect would only slightly mitigate the very severe global warming in the case of unbridled CO2 emissions.
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This latest crisis can easily avoided. Just do the exact opposite of what Al Gore and Greta Thunberg suggest.
Simple, eh?
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"Global warming is going to cause Europe to freeze."
Europe already had a Little Ice Age from the early 14th century to the mid 19th century, which was characterized by harsh winters, crop failures and social upheaval. The Thames River froze over at least two years in a row. They had frost fairs on the river.
“It’s getting warmer!”
“It’s getting colder!”
“It’s getting warmer!”
“It’s getting colder!”
“It’s getting warmer!”
“It’s getting colder!”
See?? We were right!!!
We are definitely dealing with climate change here in Minneapolistan. Last week in the mornings it was around 70 degrees. This morning it was 46.
“Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change”
Stopped reading there...
I couldn’t be cooler. Not that I’m at all cool. Just that…I couldn’t be.
Yes, that’s what Global Warming means. Cold weather. ;-D
I wondered when they would make the swap from WE’RE ALL GOING TO BURN TO DEATH! to WE’RE ALL GONNA FREEZE!
Climate change, according g to the LIARS that push it, ensures that EVERYTHING is caused by change. Of course there is tons of evidence that no, man isn’t to blame, but the LIARS that push the agenda ignore the evidence, and keep making,up asinine claims about cc.
The myth of the “collapsing AMOC”. A hobby horse ridden by Stefan Rahmstorf and the Potsdam propaganda mill for a couple of decades now. Based, as always, on model projections instead of evidence. Empirical research has shown the AMOC to be stable, has been stable for decades, with mild cyclic swings like most of mother Nature, and no sign it will weaken noticeably, much less “irreversibly” at anytime in the future even 75 years from now.
So, the COMING ICE AGE! hysteria of the 1970s is “on” again?
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