Icy Silence From Climate Doomers As Controversial Study Warns Of Possible Ice Age

Forget threats of “global boiling.” A possible new ice age and attendant sea level changes could be ushered in as a result of shifts in a key Atlantic current, climate scientists set out in a controversial new study as reported by multiple outlets. [emphasis, links added]

The forecast appears in the journal Communications Earth & Environment and, at face value, runs counter to the incessant cries of “global boiling” that dominate the climate debate.

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.

They have been published just a matter of weeks after one-time climate doomer Bill Gates publicly downplayed the impact of temperature fluctuations on the planet and urged humanity to instead focus on other threats to our future.

The NY Post makes clear what is at stake per the new findings in a story headlined: “Climate scientists’ controversial claim Gulf Stream could be near collapse — predicting a new ice age”

It states:

“[T]he at-risk current in question is the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation or AMOC, a ‘conveyor belt of the ocean’ that funnels warm water toward the ocean surface — from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere.

“This current, which includes the Gulf Stream that runs from the Gulf of Mexico to the US East Coast and across the Atlantic to Europe, helps maintain the mild climate of Europe, the UK, and the US East Coast.

“The study stated that the source of this marine temperature regulator, the Greenland Ice sheet, is being thawed amid warming temperatures, causing meltwater runoff to leach into the North Atlantic — leading to stagnation.”

The attendant changes resulted in a “distinctive temperature fingerprint” located some 3,280 to 6,560 feet below the ocean’s surface, according to the Daily Mail.

“Here we identify a distinctive temperature fingerprint in the equatorial Atlantic that signals the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation change,” the authors wrote. “The robust physical mechanism and reliable detection make [this fingerprint] a valuable metric for AMOC monitoring in a warming climate.”

The presence of the marine hot pocket appears to suggest that the current slowdown has been occurring for decades and could foment a total decline before the end of the century, per the study.

According to the Mail, Iceland has designated AMOC’s potential collapse an existential threat and has begun planning for worst-case scenarios.

Climate minister Johann Pall Johannsson said: “It is a direct threat to our national resilience and security.”

If the AMOC does collapse, it could plunge large parts of wider Europe into a deep freeze. In fact, scientists have predicted that parts of the UK could drop to as low as -30°C.

As Breitbart News previously reported, predictions of global rises in the Earth’s temperatures have long dominated the climate narrative, with claims of an impending new ice age almost nonexistent.

In 2023, United Nations chief Antonio Guterres rolled out some of his most apocalyptic climate rhetoric to date by declaring, “the era of global warming has ended, the era of global boiling has arrived.”

He went on to lament how “terrifying” it was seeing children “swept away by monsoon rains, families running from the flames, workers collapsing in scorching heat.”

The veteran Portuguese socialist painted a picture of a world in peril during a streamed speech from U.N. headquarters in New York, returning once more to a theme of climate doom he has used almost without respite since he took office.

Previously, he told participants in the COP27 climate summit of impending “climate chaos” due to humanity’s “fossil fuel addiction,” as Breitbart News reported.

“We are on a highway to climate hell with our foot still on the accelerator,” the career diplomat insisted during his COP27 opening speech in the resort town of Sharm El-Sheikh, Egypt.

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