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!
The coming ice age is one of my earliest school memories. I read it in “My Weekly Reader”
The AMOC has become one of the favorite talking points of the climate cult. A guy named Rahmstorf at Potsdam has been riding this as his personal hobby horse for almost 30 years. They have a whole rationale based on their models which projects it will some how slow to a stop (think Algore’s Movie.)
Trouble is, published research as recently as last Spring, in “Nature,” the big deal journal, based on actual measurements, showed no trace of any slowing. Over the medium term, which is all the records available, the AMOC seems to fluctuate, as do virtually all the oceanic currents. so it may slow down for while, but then speed up again. Currently it’s doing fine, according to the data,
Yeah it doesn’t do our side any good putting up photoshopped covers and that one has been posted here countless times.
Of course, the leftists will announce that the only way to stop global cooling is global socialism. The same thing that was supposed to stop global warming.
I have always said the true test on whether the global warming alarmists are truely serious about saving the planet would be if they responded to a new potential ice age by demanding we start polluting again to save the world.
Because I know in my heart, they would not. Because I know they never believed the whole warming BS. They just used it to try to push their agenda.
The last one ended in the mid 1980’s we are about due for another.
Was an estimated time frame given? Do I need to start planning now, or is it too late?
We’re back to the ice age now.
I’ll make a note of that. 😄
I thought we had to worry about the planet warming but now there is a coming ice age? Can’t they make up their damn mind? Dear Lord when are you coming to deliver us from this insanity?!
You beat me to it by 20 minutes, lol.
So global warming is causing the next ice age, got it.
Back to the 80’s. Here we go again.
I remember there were movies about how we would all be frozen in 10 years.
When that didn’t pan out, we were all go to burn from man made global warming. The oceans would rise from polar caps melting. 🤔🙄
If you can grow weed under LEDs, you can grow veggies. Besides, the sun will still shine. Garden near the surface or the ice sheet. Sure, some folks will live( or not) in deprived areas, but I can see it being the most survivable Ice Age, evah. For good or ill...previous Ice Ages wiped out the wimps.
I have noticed it’s gotten steadily colder since September. Anyone else notice that?
So can we keep our natural gas appliances now?
Wait!!! I thought warming was going to cause the sea levels to rise. You mean cooling will too???
Whenever glaciation resumes the effect will be much lower sea levels. This may not happen for a 1,000 years or more. What they are saying in this article is that sea levels may rise before then. OK. We will have to deal with it if it happens.
This means we will have to adapt to rising or falling sea levels. Our efforts should focus on how to adapt rather than some ridiculous idea that we can control the climate at this stage which we can’t.
From google AI -
“During the peak of the last glacial cycle (around 20,000 years ago), global sea levels were approximately 400 to 425 feet (122 to 130 meters) lower than today.
This was because a large amount of Earth’s water was locked up in massive continental ice sheets.
Consequently, many areas now underwater were dry land, such as the Bering Land Bridge connecting Asia and North America. “
“Meltdown expected, the wheat is growing thin
Engines stop running, but I have no fear
‘Cause London is drowning, and I live by the river”
If a new ice age is imminent shouldn’t we be receiving subsidies to buy ICE cars, gas stoves, other carbon spewing devices?
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