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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The music was better in 1975.
The coming Ice Age isn’t even bringing good tunes.
It would, but the first sentence in the article said it would cause rising sea levels.
The Air Force Museum has a nice display on the Wild Weasels; those letters show up in several places.
Nowhere are they defined.
If you know, you know.
If you don't know, ask your Dad.
Agreed. All of this fussing is about a few degrees of change in temperature.
(Yeah ... '76 ...)
What do I win? Higher taxes and more restrictions?
Oh my, even Ferret Face made the cover of TIME, lol.
This Ice Age will be a breeze. Buildings in the ice sheet, small nuclear reactors for heat and electricity....
The WW’s were in Mountain Home Idaho while my daughter was in the Air Force. The old F-4’s did there job.
Oh noes, the prediction is west Texas and east New Mexico would get a 20-25% increase in rainfall during summer, which is our dryest period.
Milder, wetter, winters due to trapped heat in the Gulf.
Damn shame for my cattle.
Again? We had one in the 70s.
I remember that. I could be wrong, but I always thought global cooling didn’t get the traction that the communists of the world wanted, so they switched tactics, and decided they would try global warming, to see if people would accept it.
I told my Dad that I didn’t know the motto of the wild weasels.
He said, of course you do. Everybody knows their motto.
I said, No, I really don’t know their motto.
You gotta be shitting me, he said.
I said, I’m serious, Dad, I don’t know their motto.
But he wouldn’t say anything more.
This is an idea that has been making the rounds for decades with very reasonable studies indication the AMOC is not in danger.
Don’t interrupt them when they’re sciencing. It takes their undivided attention. Just sit quietly, and await instructions on what you can or can’t do.
Warming or cooling, it’s All Our Fault!
Do you suppose global warming and the ice age could cancel each other out?
Better crank up them windmills.
“Instead we have invited the greatest of all climactic threats: ice age.”
I read several years ago that there was a federal satellite program to scan the atmosphere to make sure none of the fervent climate fearing billionaires were paying to salt the atmosphere with chemicals to reflect sunlight to save us from Global Warming. The reason is, NASA has suspected for some time an ice age was more likely.
I remember going to a planetarium in the sixties and the presenter showed how procession, distance from the sun and orbital tilt where all compatible with being in an ice age and the thing keeping us warm was the Gulf Stream’s present location.
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