Posted on 11/27/2018 6:38:17 AM PST by Red Badger
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Ocean circulation in North Atlantic is at its weakest for 1,500 years - and at levels that previously triggered a mini Ice Age, study warns
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Study shows the levels are at their lowest for 1,500 years
Currents have a 'profound effect' on both North American and European climate
Researcher found a similar weak signal during a period called the Little Ice Age, a cold spell observed between about 1600 and 1850 AD
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Researchers have discovered that water in the North Atlantic has 'dramatically weakened.'
The study shows the levels are at their lowest of for 1,500 years - and climate change is to blame.
Researchers warn the currents will have a 'profound effect' on both the North American and European climate.
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The weakening ocean: This is a schematic of the circulation in the western North Atlantic during episode of strong (left) and weak (right) westward transport of the Labrador Current (LC). The oceanography of this region is characterised by the interaction of water masses formed in the Labrador and moving westward (LC and Labrador Sea Slope Water (LSSW)) and the water masses moving eastward originating as the Gulf Stream (GS) and its Atlantic Temperate Slope Water (ATSW). The exact location where these two water mass systems meet (yellow dashed lines) is determined by the strength of the northern recirculation gyre (white arrows), which then control the temperature.
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Wow, this was published in the Daily Mail? Were the editors asleep?
More proof of climate change. Maybe we ought to make the sun quit putting out CO2. /sarc
Probably had gone home for the day...................
And we got 1500 year old information from where??
Winter is coming.....
The Internet................
Precisely
Coinciding with a grand solar minimum, just like the last time it happened? Probably just a coincidence... no correlation here, I am sure.
Tree rings, ice core samples, soil samples, and really grainy VHS weather forecast tapes.
Fifteen-hundred year old baseline on ocean circulation?! WTF?
Climate scientists tend to collect much data which they often massage but have been spectacularly wrong on their predictions and conclusions. They must follow the politically correct narrative, please their political patrons to keep the money coming to them.
From the article:
Drs. Not and Thibodeau used microfossils, called foraminifer, found in a sediment core to estimate the past temperature of the Ocean.
“estimate”
Nancy Pelosi.
And governments, NGO's and so-called climate scientists keep blathering about global warming to the point where nobody believes anything anyone says about climate. But I believe cooling is coming and it could make things very uncomfortable for decades. We could see growing cycles disrupted and face bitter winter storms in areas that don't usually get that kind of weather.
I can't guarantee that cooling is coming but it's something every one should be prepared for. Cold can kill.
I love how the Chicken Littles of the Left switched from “global warming” to “climate change” once it was clear that man-made global warming was a scam. Of course the climate “changes”. It always has and always will. It is the epitome of hubris to think mankind causes it to any substantial degree (pun intended).
The Atlantic multidecadal oscillation is entering its cold phase. This is a known phenomenon and has been expected for some time.
I always ask these people, “Just when, in the last million years or so, has the climate NOT CHANGED?”..................
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