Global ocean circulation appears to be slowing Credit: NASA
Scientists have long known about the anomalous “warming hole” in the North Atlantic Ocean, an area immune to warming of Earth’s oceans. This cool zone in the North Atlantic Ocean appears to be associated with a slowdown in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), one of the key drivers in global ocean circulation.
A recent study published in Nature outlines research by a team of Yale University and University of Southhampton scientists. The team found evidence that Arctic ice loss is potentially negatively impacting the planet’s largest ocean circulation system. While scientists do have some analogs as to how this may impact the world, we will be largely in uncharted territory.
AMOC is one of the largest current systems in the Atlantic Ocean and the world. Generally speaking, it transports warm and salty water northward from the tropics to South and East of Greenland. This warm water cools to ambient water temperature then sinks as it is saltier and thus […]
More fake news about what is not happening…according to the know nothings in charge! With the vast intelligence, education, experience, ease of communication and travel why are the small minded in charge? Where is the mature, wise, virtuous leadership that I know exists? Why do they too seldom rise to the top? For you libertarian, government conspiracy/haters my question is what organization is large enough to push back against this self-destructive collective death urge that will destroy our complex and seemingly powerful civilization…Texas and Florida being the latest example.
There is a book that I found a number of years ago called “The Key” by Whitley Strieber which might be fantasy or science fiction but it did predict climate change and the resulting political conflict that is playing out in current time. Perhaps as one scientist suggested we might say there is “increasing climate instability”-a new meme, a new story, stop assigning blame and all might agree to address the newly discovered issue.
Here is a link to another story big this week that should cause grave concern in the minds of policy makers… but if anything, it, too, will likely be labeled as fake news.
http://www.politico.com/agenda/story/2017/09/13/food-nutrients-carbon-dioxide-000511
This is one of the cycles on the planet. When the climate warms to some point the ice melts and slows down the current and the planet cools again. It has nothing to do with CO2.
Steve where is your data that is based on years of research in your particular field of the earth sciences? Does your belief work in the same way when numbers of scientists agree that there is storm headed in your direction. Do your prepare for wind and flood or decide it’s a trick to regulate/control/tax so you do nothing? I imagine you trust scientists in many areas of life so why is climate change different? And while science has seemed to prove that over vast periods of time the earth has gone through many extremes hot and cold never, so far as we know, has the planet had such a huge human population that will doubtless suffer great individual and collective difficulties.