Relax, Contrary to Media Reports, Research Shows Gulf Stream Collapse Is Not Occurring

[rangerrebew]

Relax, Contrary to Media Reports, Research Shows Gulf Stream Collapse Is Not Occurring
By
H. Sterling Burnett -
August 6, 2021 0
 

A search of Google News for the term “climate change” today shows the mainstream media is abuzz with the claim human climate change is causing the collapse of the Gulf Stream, which could lead to mini-ice age. Data from multiple other studies indicate this claim is wrong.

CNN, The Guardian, the Washington Post, and other mainstream media outlets are reporting a recent Nature Climate Change study is warning human caused climate change is causing the collapse of a major ocean current, the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), and the Gulf Stream, which a feature of the AMOC. If this occurs it would have serious impact on climate, likely leading to a cooling of the planet.

CNN’s story, titled “A crucial ocean circulation is showing signs of instability. Its shutdown would have serious impacts on our weather,” is typical of the popular press’s misleading coverage of the report.

https://climaterealism.com/2021/08/relax-contrary-to-media-reports-research-shows-gulf-stream-collapse-is-not-occurring/

[Kamaji]

The punchline from the article:

A 2020 study published in Science Advances, came to a diametrically opposed conclusion than the recent Nature study, saying the ocean circulations have picked up speed.

“[W]e show a statistically significant increasing trend in the globally integrated oceanic kinetic energy since the early 1990s, indicating a substantial acceleration of global mean ocean circulation,” the authors of the Science Advances study write. “Although possibly influenced by wind changes associated with the onset of a negative Pacific decadal oscillation since the late 1990s, the recent acceleration is far larger than that associated with natural variability, suggesting that it is principally part of a long-term trend.”

Multiple other studies, for example here and here, have found no significant increase or decrease in the world’s major ocean circulation patterns. These studies conclude large scale ocean currents are stable.

Shifts in the AMOC and the Gulf Stream have happened throughout history and are entirely natural. To the extent possible, such shifts should be anticipated and planned for, but they are beyond human control.

[Free Vulcan]

Does it matter? Whatever the jet stream does or does not do, it is the result of climate change.

[Kamaji]

Does it matter? Whatever the jet stream does or does not do, it is the result of climate change.

Jet stream or gulf stream?

[Free Vulcan]

Jet stream or gulf stream?

Jet stream, gulf stream, mountain streams, clouds, rain, wind, frost, dolphins, stubbing your toe - its all global warming - er - climate change.