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!
Should I bring out the fruit cake and eat it now?
Then you will die.
I am fairly sure I am not going to be taken up in a fiery chariot.
From the fruit cake.
Anything is good if it has been sitting in rum for a year.
One might think but it turns out that back in the 70s we had to stop the ice age by doing the same things we had to do to stop global warming.
I bought a cooler type thing once that could both cool and keep things hot, it was kind of costly for its size. You would think the big 3 would advertise that as a luxury feature on their products with a $10,000 bump in sticker price.
As kids we had cold ears then, but that won’t be a problem today because kids don’t go outside anymore.
Again????????
https://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19731203,00.html
The Russians warned about thos and are preparing for a mini ice age back in the 2010s.
The water for a mile of ice over Chicago had to come from *somewhere*!
THAT is a great unit patch!
I had a couple of college room/apartment-mates that were Association of Old Crows types for a while. IYKYK
We are so screwed.
How To Survive The Coming Ice Age
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Move toward the equator.
Back to the 60s and 70s again.
See? Global warming is awesome.
Maybe they shouldn’t have been spraying all that crap in the air to reduce solar radiation under ‘agw’ hoax. /s
How about “might”, “could”, “possibly” and a few other qualifiers of similar nature?
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