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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Burning hydrocarbons will become an act of patriotism. The Sierra Club will call for more logging. Woo hoo.
I was stationed at Mountain Home, when we had 4 squadrons of F-4s.
It’s back! I grew up with the threat of an ice age. Later came global warming. Are we back to ice age again? Too funny.
Closer to 400’ lower.
Back to the Seventies!
Bkmk
Exactly. It gives all the scum bags of the world, an excuse to demand lots of money, so they can “fight” global warming/cooling. I think it’s all a plot to extort money from the western democracies.
-In the last iceage sea level was over 2000 feet lower-
Two thousand feet lower? That doesn’t seem possible so I ask GROK.
No, sea levels during the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, ~26,500–19,000 years ago, the peak of the last Ice Age) were not over 2,000 feet lower than today. They were approximately 400–430 feet (120–130 meters) lower.
Just wait. When The Great Cold returns, there will me a Comedy Channel show with 24/7 videos of AlGore and his minions stating: “The Earth has a fever” as everyone around the television shivers.
I fished CJ Strike and watch the daily air show when my daughter was there. Fish, drink beer, and watch the show. It’s hell to get old. They had the Gunfighters there at the time, A-10’s from Boise amoung others. I gotta tell ya, as an old sub sailor in a jet boat that was living. Hope this ice age don’t dull my ice augar. Regards
Can we please staaaaap with the “we’re all gonna die cuz climate change” bs already. It’s. A. Complete. Lie.
Only crazy people are still bowing to the alter
Wow! Leftists really kept great weather records dating back to 1470… I’m impressed
“’It is a direct threat to our national resilience and security,’ Iceland Climate Minister Johann Pall Johannsson said by email.”
They may actually have to sell out to Trump and move to the USA as the climate becomes inhospitable.
Now we know why they changed the name to climate change. I guess they stopped global warming, were obviously too successful, and soon we will be able to remove our catalytic converters, go back to r-12 freon, while burning our trash in the back yard.
Good times are coming.
“New Study From Chinese And American Scientists Warns Of Incoming Ice Age”
Yes, but it’s still all our fault, and the only cure is worldwide socialism led by a tiny pampered elite. Same as before.
All predictions of a future Ice Age\future major glaciation are correct since its cyclic.
Technically we are still in a major glacial period - Quaternary. We’ve enjoyed a warming lull. That will end. When no one knows.
What do I win? Higher taxes and more restrictions?
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Vastly higher heating bills ...
This Ice Age will be a breeze. Buildings in the ice sheet, small nuclear reactors for heat and electricity....
Farming rows of ice plants, picking bouquets of frozen flowers, eating your neighbor.
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