Will the UK Face a New Ice Age in 2025? Spoiler Alert: No! By James Reed and Brian Simpson
Today the media is going crazy over a new scientific paper that supposedly confirms the movie of 2004, The Day After Tomorrow, where the shutting down of the Gulf Stream (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC)), led to a new Ice Age. The precise claim, made by climate scientists, and already we should be on guard when reading that, is the Gulf Stream in set to shut down, plunging the UK into a "new Ice Age," with winter temperatures up to 15°C (27°F) below the current average. That would of course be devastating to the UK, and perhaps other areas of Europe, if true. The Gulf Stream moves warmer water around the planet, and its decrease, let alone shutdown, would be an utter disaster to modern societies, who already are vulnerable to the cold from climate change alarmism fossil fuel attacks. And this is all set to happen in 2025. We were expecting something like this to happen before US election, but maybe an announcement of little green men will fill in for that: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-13991003/Gulf-Stream-COLLAPSE-soon-scientists.html;
The big question then to ask, is this true? The UN IPCC, which is the paradigm of climate change alarmism, did not predict a collapse of the Gulf Stream before the end of this century, so the proposal by next year is, well, radical. This though has been a claim by climate scientists before this: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12335853/The-real-life-Day-Tomorrow-Gulf-Stream-COLLAPSE-time-2025-thanks-climate-change-plunging-Europe-deep-freeze.html.
We find the claims made here, problematic, and only a little internet search will uncover much critical material: https://theconversation.com/the-gulf-stream-will-not-collapse-in-2025-what-the-alarmist-headlines-got-wrong-210773#:~:text=The%20currents%20are%20not%20collapsing%20(anytime%20soon)&text=The%20latest%20series%20of%20alarmist. There may be a slowing down of the Gulf Stream, but this has happened before and does not imply any collapse anymore than slowing down one's car implies a crash. But it does grab the headlines: https://bigthink.com/strange-maps/gulf-stream-collapse-amoc/.
The UK though should run with this, if they did not have an insane Leftist government, and proclaim that to prevent an Ice Age fossil fuels need to be burnt as never before! See how fast the claims are dropped!
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