Posted on 11/12/2025 1:21:33 PM PST by Red Badger
That climate is a-changin'!
The Gulf Stream is near collapse, scientists warn — inviting a new ice age and rising sea levels https://t.co/mtZqDdQwce pic.twitter.com/37bikEYbXU— New York Post (@nypost) November 12, 2025
I get it.
It's a New York Post link. It's supposed to be clickbaity.
But this is a real study published in Communications Earth & Environment that was conducted by researchers from the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) and the University of California, San Diego.
Per the new findings, the at-risk current in question is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC, a 'conveyor belt of the ocean' that funnels warm water toward the ocean surface — from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere.
This current, which includes the Gulf Stream that runs from the Gulf of Mexico to the US East Coast and across the Atlantic to Europe, helps maintain the mild climate of Europe, the UK, and the US East Coast.
The study stated that the source of this marine temperature regulator, the Greenland Ice sheet, is being thawed amid warming temperatures, causing meltwater runoff to leach into the North Atlantic — leading to stagnation.
The effect of the ice sheet warming is that it would cause the currents to slow, which would keep warmer water from reaching Europe.
Europe, especially northern countries like Iceland, the UK, and Norway, benefit massively from the current, which warms them significantly even though they are so far from the equator.
If the Gulf Stream slows, they might getting winters as harsh as Canada and the northern U.S.
'Winters would be more typical of Arctic Canada and precipitation would decrease, also,' Jonathan Bamber, a professor of Earth observation at the University of Bristol, told the Daily Mail.
(I can hear the Canadians laughing from here).
The problem is significant enough that Iceland just declared the slow of the current a national security risk, according to Reuters.
A potential collapse of AMOC could trigger a modern-day ice age, with winter temperatures across Northern Europe plummeting to new cold extremes, bringing far more snow and ice. The AMOC has collapsed in the past - notably before the last Ice Age that ended about 12,000 years ago.
'It is a direct threat to our national resilience and security,' Iceland Climate Minister Johann Pall Johannsson said by email.
Anyway, I'll be over here just enjoying life while the newest doomsday prediction sends the climate crazies into another round of unhinged frenzy!
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“Resilience”
Leftard buzzword of the decade
back to ice age again!
LMAO
I wonder how many environmentalists will start protesting to increase polution and coal fired power plants to help save us from the comming ice age?
None, that is how many. Since warming was just a BS excuse to get what they wanted.
Climate data and solar activity cycle data have consistently signalled an ice age for the late 2020s. We should have been burning as much fossil fuels as we could to stave off massive agricultural disruption.
Instead we have invited the greatest of all climactic threats: ice age.
They predicted an ice age 50 years ago. I guess since nothing else worked they thought they’d go for a rerun.
XMAS - Ice Age - White Christmas
https://youtu.be/wbJxPu0lXgM
An ice age would mean lower sea levels
I point out the 50 year warming during the LIA as a way to say I'm not too worried about the possible brief cooling we've experienced during the Modern Warm Period. With the Modern Warm Period being 1.5 to 2 centuries old, if it lasts as long as the prior couple of warming periods we've probably got 2 to 4 more centuries before it tops out.
I caught that article misstatement too.
And this new ‘ice’ age will be the result of... You guessed it... Global Warming.
See... Al Gore was right all along... Except the snows of Mount Kilimanjaro are still on Mount Kilimanjaro and they aren’t going anywhere anytime soon.
Everything old is new again!
It’s 1975 again!!!
If the water is tied up in land-based ice, wouldn’t that lower the oceans? (Not tongue in cheek)
AI: The Red Chinese Yellow Peril is currently building more coal-fired power plants, with a significant increase in construction activity noted in recent years, while the inscrutable chopsticks’ Lysenko shills lecture us on the perils of glowbull warming.
A few hydrogen bombs would keep them warm.
Sincerely, your pal General Jack D. Ripper
“Why We Can’t Beat the Soviets”???
ROFL!!!
And the kids today think Big Media spewing communist propaganda is something new ...
Exactly. In the last iceage sea level was over 2000 feet lower
Shades of 8th grade in ‘65. YGTBSM. 🤪
Since I was young an ice age has been a climate change that does worry me, the West needs to develop it’s nuclear and coal energy industries.
Hotter, Colder, or the same as today, plentiful, dependable, cheap, energy is what the common man’s home, his workplace, and his food producers need.
Important to note that on your top graph,
the entire temperature range is 1.5 degrees C.
The sun is zoomin’ in!
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