Posted on 03/03/2025 4:36:22 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
The world's strongest ocean current could slow as melting Antarctic ice sheets flood it with fresh water, according to research published on Monday that warned of "severe" climate consequences.
Scientists used one of Australia's most powerful supercomputers to model how melting ice sheets might change the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, which plays a major role in global climate patterns.
If fossil fuel emissions increased over the next 25 years – a so-called high emissions scenario – the current could slow by around 20 percent, the peer-reviewed research found.
Melting ice sheets would "dump vast quantities of fresh water" into the current, the modelling found.
This would change the ocean's salt content, making it harder for cold water to circulate between the surface and the depths.
The research team, which included scientists from Australia, India and Norway, noted that their findings contrasted with previous studies that observed the current speeding up.
They said further observation and modelling was needed to understand how the "poorly observed region" was responding to climate change.
(Excerpt) Read more at france24.com ...
Antarctic Sea Ice Reaches New Record Maximum
https://www.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/antarctic-sea-ice-reaches-new-record-maximum/
Good to see their friend Goebbels making a return visit here to advocate for their views on Global Warming!
Now we seem to be 25 years away from disaster. That’s convenient.
probably as good as my plastic models were when I was a kid
Still at it huh?
Funding Time,,
The same old truth applies: “Garbage in, garbage out”.
WHAT “research”, WHICH “scientists” and how much money did they get for this latest hoax?
Fossil fuels have almost nothing to do with it.It is the activity of the sun that drives the climate.
And we cannot control the sun.
We adapt as we always have as a species.
But these climate religionists want to destroy capitalism and control all manufacturing and consumption via the nationalization of every economy in the world.Climate driven Marxism.BUahahahahahahaha!
Sorry lewzers.....it will never happen.
It’s not melting, Antartic ice is actually expanding.
why must these people making prognostications always use verbs, like could, that are anything but definitive? It’s because they have no clue that their predictions have any validity to them whatsoever. Given their track record, they have been miscalculating the date of doom that still has not arrived, but has actually come & gone many times over already without the projected result they stated could happen of we did not take immediate action. It’s been over half a century now already.
For what it’s worth, the average annual temperature of Antarctica is -47 F........
We must do more to combat global climate averageness.
Here is some real science on the issue. And the jury is in. Its the sun stupid.
https://rclutz.com/2018/07/29/dr-indrani-roy-on-solar-and-climate-cycles/
yep, scientists are simply discovering the processes which lead to ice ages and interglacials. Humans have no impact on the cycle what so ever.
Another of N ‘climate change’ positions. N is a large number.
And thus far, all of those predictions have been wrong.
Remember, we’re dealing with the left here.
“Could”
Keep sending us grant money and we will zero this in to “possibly” or “maybe”
I am SO worried! Just like I was the last 60 times I saw a similar ocean current scare story in the last 30 years.
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