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The Gulf Stream is part of a larger ocean conveyor belt known as the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation (Amoc), which moves warm water northwards in the upper layers of the Atlantic Ocean, and colder waters southwards at lower depths. Previous research has shown that a slowdown of Amoc appeared to trigger a global cold snap 13,000 years ago. In 2018 scientists revealed that the Gulf Stream was at its weakest in 1,600 years.
By investigating the impact of Greenland meltwater and rainfall on Amoc, researchers found that thankfully there is very little chance of a complete shutdown in the next 1,000 years, but instead they show there is a 15% chance of a temporary shutdown in the next 100 years, which would likely trigger cooler conditions in north-west Europe. But acting fast to limit global warming will reduce the chances of being thrown into a chill.
Comment: While The Guardian tries to spin this as an unlikely event their bias blinds them to the plentiful research that shows global cooling has already begun:
- Stratospheric polar vortex reaches coldest temperature in 40 years
- Global cooling to replace warming trend that started 4,000 years ago - Chinese scientists
- Gulf Stream is 15% weaker, region south of Greenland coldest in 1,000 years
- Adapt 2030 Ice Age Report: Interview with Laura Knight-Jadczyk and Pierre Lescaudron
- Behind the Headlines: Earth changes in an electric universe: Is climate change really man-made?
Reader Comments
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Without the Gulfstream hitting the UK, it would be like Greenland!
SO PATHETIC! Such patently OBVIOUS lies; swallowed wholesale by the majority of the West.
Glad I grew up when I did.
R.C.
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If you think they aren't controlling the weather than you're delusional. There's far too much scientific evidence and video testimony to prove otherwise.
And yet, had I read your comment on 4/10/10, yes, I, RC, who used to turn out . . .
Odd thing that I, who used to clear out for any part of the world at twenty-four hours' notice, with less thought than most men give to the crossing of a street, had a moment--I won't say of hesitation, but of startled pause, before this commonplace affair. The best way I can explain it to you is by saying that, for a second or two, I felt as though, instead of going to the center of a continent, I were about to set off for the center of the earth.
Yer comment (sadly) opened my P.O.V. unto even wider - and sadder - perspectives.
Yet, as all that 'rules' - or at least should rule - in only truth can any of us find it.
Good point - despite its scariness.
R.C.
"But acting fast to limit global warming will reduce the chances of being thrown into a chill."