The BBC Tries a Feckless Rescue as Scientists Inconveniently Find the Gulf Stream Isn’t Getting Weaker
By
Anthony Watts
February 18, 2025
Editor’s Note: Climate Realism has been covering the ups and downs of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) for quite some time. There is one thing we know to be true: climate science can’t seem to decided if it is speeding up, slowing down, or not changing at all. In fact the claims flip-flop from year to year as reported by Heartland President James Taylor in this Climate Realism essay: Climate Activists Flip-Flop on Ocean Currents, Yet Again.
For a factual understanding of the AMOC, see Ocean Currents on Climate at a Glance.
The only thing predictable about the AMOC is that no matter what side of the flip-flop it is claimed to be on, the media, such as the BBC, will find a way to turn it into a meritless doomsday scenario.
Guest essay by Chris Morrison From THE DAILY SCEPTIC
Last month a group of scientists published a paper in Nature stating that the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) had shown no decline in strength since the 1960s. Helped by publicity in the Daily Sceptic, the story went viral on social media, although it was largely ignored in narrative-driven mainstream publications. The collapse of the Gulf Stream, a key component of the AMOC, is an important ‘tipping point’ story used to induce mass climate psychosis and make it easier to impose the Net Zero fantasy on increasing resentful and questioning populations. Obviously, reinforcements to back up such an important weaponised scare needed to be rushed to the front and the BBC has risen to the challenge. The AMOC “appears to be getting weaker” state BBC activists Simon King and Mark Poynting. Their long article is a classic of its kind in trying to deflect scientific findings that blow holes in the ‘settled’ narrative.
https://climaterealism.com/2025/02/the-bbc-tries-a-feckless-rescue-as-scientists-inconveniently-find-the-gulf-stream-isnt-getting-weaker/
