By P Gosselin
In a recent open letter, researchers warned that a warmer Arctic could lead to cold waves across Northern Europe – due to “complex feedback mechanisms”.
According to Forschung & Wissen here, an international group of renowned scientists recently published an open letter (PDF) stating that the melting of ice in the Arctic could disrupt ocean currents in the Atlantic, and thus have “devastating and irreversible impacts especially for Nordic countries, but also for other parts of the world.”
Source: Open Letter by Climate Scientists to the Nordic Council of Ministers
According to their publication in the journal Nature Communications, October 2024, doi: 10.1038/s41467-024-53401-3, melting of sea ice during the last interglacial significantly impacted the density and salinity of seawater, and thus led to significant changes in ocean currents and heat distribution in the oceans.
The researchers looked at sediment cores collected in the North Sea and reconstructed surface temperatures and salinity and found that these processes have led to a significant drop in temperature in northern Europe.
According to Mohamed Ezat: “Our discovery that the increased melting of Arctic sea ice in the Earth’s past probably led to significant cooling in northern Europe is alarming.”
He adds: “The impacts particularly on Nordic Countries would likely be catastrophic, including major cooling in the region while surrounding regions warm. This would be an enlargement and deepening of the ‘cold blob’ that already has developed over the subpolar Atlantic Ocean and likely lead to unprecedented extreme weather.”
The core argument being made is that:
1) A cooler Europe cannot be adapted to by Scandinavian countries.
And
2) That Scandinavian countries are more likely to be able to control the industrial policies of China and India than adapt.
Point 1 is highly unlikely. If Scandinavian countries cannot cope with cold temperatures they would be depopulated already. A few more degrees colder is not likely to be the breaking point. Oslo does not suffer mass deaths when winter is below average in temperature.
Point 2 is proven to be false over the last quarter century of COPs.
Clearly, this is junk science which will be ignored by politicians as they know that it’s recommendations are impossible to implement and probably not justified. So who is it for?
The answer is that it’s purely for the Green audience.
With Baku coming up they need new nightmares to fantasise about. No-one else cares. This is the Greens forming a circle, facing inwards and trying to shut out the rest of the world that is ignoring them.
Warmcold is back!!!
I’m telling you these guys are scraping the bottom of the barrel, they have nothing. How many reruns must we endure?
Delusional group-think, Arctic warming is normal during centennials lows in solar activity, driven by negative NAO regimes, while rising CO2 forcing is expected to increase positive NAO states.
“Climate Researchers Warn: Warmer Climate Could Lead To “Cold Waves Across Northern Europe”!”
Major cold waves are usually discretely solar driven, meaning that they are a cause and not a product of climate variability. Regional cold records can be broken despite a century of global warming.
https://docs.google.com/document/d/e/2PACX-1vQemMt_PNwwBKNOS7GSP7gbWDmcDBJ80UJzkqDIQ75_Sctjn89VoM5MIYHQWHkpn88cMQXkKjXznM-u/pub
I thought my comments had gone but I forgot about page 2!