Posted on 11/12/2025 5:29:59 PM PST by dynachrome
A key Atlantic current could be pushed to the brink of collapse within decades, supposedly ushering in a new ice age and dramatically raising sea levels, climate scientists have claimed in a controversial new study published in the journal Communications Earth & Environment.
The apocalyptic predictions came as a result of a collaboration between researchers at the Institute of Oceanology of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (IOCAS) and the University of California, San Diego — weeks after one-time climate alarmist Bill Gates publicly downplayed the impact of temperature fluctuations on the planet.
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“Should the AMOC slow down too much, they claim, it could have significant ramifications. These include the extreme suggestion that temperatures across Europe to drop by nearly 60 degrees.
“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.
Coincidentally, the last time the AMOC collapsed was before the last Ice Age that ended about 12,000 years ago, Reuters reported.”
My bet has been on a new Ice Age all along.
Either way one thing can be sure...
Need more funding !!!
I just knew if Ice Queen Michelle Obama moved to the Hamptons, it would cool down the western Atlantic...
When "ice ages" (glacial periods) occur sea levels drop. What Cracker Jacks box did these "climate scientists" get their degrees from?
Sea levels began to rise 18k years ago at the end of the last glacial period. They have risen about 135 meters since then ...
Two terms need to be banned are: “Climate scientists” and “Infuencer”.
There is a book first published in 1997 that talks about this very circumstance. Per reviews, it’s well-written and an interesting read. I think I read an article on this when the book first came out & it made an impression because I’ve never forgotten it.
Authir: Robert W. Felix
Not by Fire but by Ice: Discover What Killed the Dinosaurs...and Why It Could Soon Kill Us
I firmly believe that the climate will change over the next century. In fact I predict it will change hourly in the coming days.
I have a signed copy. A very interesting read, with actual citations and repeatable facts, unlike 95% of what’s out there right now.
How long before we are being told that the reduction
in Hydrocarbon use is causing the temp to drop ??
Either way = Need more funding !!!
I knew the legalization of pot was not a good thing…
How would an ice age raise sea levels?
Oh noooeee…. WHAT IF THE SUN STOPS SHINING?
Minus 130 meters is going to screw up getting containers ships from China.
Oh, it would get even bleaker than that.
With a mile of ice covering Canaduh all those Canucks would be pushed south.
Th Global Warming is so bad we’ll freeze to death!!!
Maybe they’ll say that O2 is the real problem and the solution is to kill all the plants.
Would that be crazier than things we’ve already been told?
It's from the giant ice cubes being dropped in the oceans. Like when you drop ice cubes into a glass of tea. The liquid level rises even as it cools.
(No, I don't know where the giant ice cubes come from.)
Grok:
The Missoula Floods: Cataclysmic Releases That Shaped Eastern Washington
The event you’re describing refers to the Missoula floods (also known as the Channeled Scablands floods or Bretz floods), a series of massive glacial outburst floods at the end of the last Ice Age. These weren’t a single dam break but repeated failures of an ice dam holding back Glacial Lake Missoula in what is now western Montana (behind the Rocky Mountains, not the Cascades—though the floods did surge through the Columbia River Gorge near the Cascades). Each rupture unleashed up to 600 cubic miles of water—equivalent to Lake Ontario’s volume—racing across eastern Washington at speeds up to 80 mph, carving dramatic landscapes like dry waterfalls, coulees, and giant ripple marks visible today in places like Dry Falls State Park.
When Did They Occur?
• Primary Period: The main sequence of floods happened between approximately 18,000 and 15,000 years ago, during the late Pleistocene epoch as the Cordilleran Ice Sheet retreated.
• Peak Activity: The largest and most intense outbursts occurred 15,000–13,000 years ago, with estimates of 40–100 separate events over 2,000–3,000 years. Intervals between floods ranged from a few years to decades.
• Context: These marked the early stages of deglaciation after the Last Glacial Maximum (~21,000 years ago), when melting ice refilled the lake repeatedly until the ice dam stabilized around 13,000 years ago.
How It Formed the Columbia River’s Path
• The floods didn’t “create” the Columbia River (which predates them as an ancient drainage), but they profoundly reshaped its channel in eastern Washington and the gorge. Water carved the Channeled Scablands, eroded basalt plateaus, and deposited massive sediment bars, widening and deepening the river’s bed. Some floods even temporarily reversed its flow or flooded the Willamette Valley in Oregon before reaching the Pacific.
• Legacy: The Scablands remain a stark, arid contrast to the lush Columbia Plateau, and the floods influenced modern river hydrology, contributing to features like the Grand Coulee.
This discovery, championed by geologist J Harlen Bretz in the 1920s (initially ridiculed as “catastrophist”), revolutionized our understanding of Ice Age dynamics. For a visual tour, check out the Ice Age Floods National Geologic Trail. If you meant a different event (e.g., the 1918 failure of Bully Creek Dam in eastern Oregon), let me know!
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