Guest essay by Eric Worrall
They predicted colder winters, right? And warmer winters. Climate scientists are dashing for “The Day after Tomorrow” insurance policy, after a “cold blob” broke off the Arctic.
How the ‘cold blob’ is slowing down our oceans – and what it means
By 9News StaffCNN
5:12pm Mar 4, 2021The “cold blob” sounds like a rejected monster from a 1950s horror show – but new research shows it could be bringing some very scary climate changes indeed.The world’s major ocean currents are slowing down, and though the consequences will not be as immediate or dramatic as in Hollywood fiction, there are real-world impacts for global weather patterns and sea levels.The slowdown of ocean circulation is directly caused by warming global temperatures and has been predicted by climate scientists.
“This has been predicted, basically, for decades that this circulation would weaken in response to global warming. And now we have the strongest evidence that this is already happening,” said Stefan Rahmstorf of Potsdam University, who contributed to this research.
The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) transports water across the planet’s oceans, including the Atlantic, Pacific and Indian. The region contributing to the slowdown is the North Atlantic, according to the research.
“If this Atlantic overturning circulation breaks down all together, this will lead to a strong cooling around the northern Atlantic, especially into Europe, into the kind of coastal areas (of) Britain and Scandinavia. But that’s only true if the overturning breaks down all together,” Rahmstorf said.
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Read more: https://www.9news.com.au/world/cold-blob-slowing-down-atlantic-ocean-currents-drastic-climate-changes-research-says/9ead0abc-7ca1-42da-920f-809d6ab62924
No possible temperature change will ever falsify alarmist climate theories. Even a full blown descent into a new ice age, if it happens in the near future, would be blamed on anthropogenic Global Warming.
No matter what happens to global weather, climate scientists have a pack of excuses ready to roll, so they can “explain” how they knew this was going to happen all along.
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When one sees where this claim comes from (PIK = Potsdam Institute for Climate research), it just adds another element to a never ending story of failed predictions they’ve made.
PIK told us a year ago from an El Niño coming. we see, how wrong there were 😀
Somehow I suspect that the authors have missed the lectures on thermodynamics.
The slowdown of ocean circulation is not real. It is a result of models. More cold water from Greenland do not slowdown the Golf stream. No measurements show this model-effect.
Why is it always the gulf stream that has to slow down for the north Atlantic to cool. Could we not have more cold water currents coming out of the Arctic? The gulf stream while the most important current in the North Atlantic is not the only current.
Centuries ago, it was “witches”. Today, it’s “climate change”.
Progress!
As we all know, after years of detailed study, the answer to everything in the universe is 42. Sadly, that “consensus” truth has been superseded by the more modern answer to everything in the Universe and beyond (according to some puppets), the new universal truth is Mann Made Global Warming leading to, Climate Change/Weather Weirding/Climate Crisis, and most interestingly Global Cooling via cooler winters.
Just ask The Guardian, they have all the answers.
I have to admit to being confused….
Latest CFACT blog https://www.cfact.org/2021/03/05/dispute-if-not-refutation-of-texas-freeze-being-a-sign-of-climate-driven-polar-vortex/
only if it breaks down all together . well if the trades winds stop blowing and the Gulf Stream stops flowing then I guess maybe that would be time to worry . real oceanographers like rossby laugh at this . and the best Rahmstorf can pull out of his hat are proxy studies that Suggest Maybe something is happening over the span of 1000 years .?I think he pumps it up to a maybe a 15% change over 1000 years . how about mentioning that studies show temps were a full degree higher in the North Atlantic basin 1000 years ago ? Rahmstorf is my favorite junk scientist
North Atlantic Ocean temps were a full 1C higher 1000 years ago .during the MWP. inconvenient truth for Rahmstorf , my favorite junk scientist .
The key:
Can not be falsified.
I’m sorry but this latest report cannot be correct. The data are clear. The UK Met Office has told us so.
“The science
The data are clear: the global climate is changing at an unprecedented rate.
In 2018 the Met Office published new climate projection data (UKCP18), with the following headline data for Scotland assuming current rates of global emissions reduction:
Changes in our climate will accelerate, with winters becoming warmer and wetter; and hotter summers …..”
(Climate Action Plan, Historic Environment Scotland, page 15)
Stefan Rahmstorf makes Hans Christian Andersen seem like a nonfiction author by comparison. Rahmsorf feels about truth how vampires feel about garlic, but vampires have more respect for human wellfare.
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Rahmstorf’s Blog
(German)
“Global” warming can’t cause colder winters in Europe–if it becomes colder in some parts of the world, the warming isn’t “global” by definition. Europe is still part of the globe!
The North Atlantic Cold Blob of 2013-2015 had fewer slow MOC events, at least after March 2013 which was a very slow MOC event, as were the deep negative NAO/AO episodes both ends of 2010. So with positive NAO/AO there is a faster MOC and a cold blob, and with negative NAO/AO a slower MOC and no cold blob. And the Gulf stream is slower when the MOC is faster.
Remember Asterix and the Soothsayer? (“This I had also foreseen”)