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Manyana: "I did not say "The Gulf Stream was Slowing" - experts said so."
Yeah, that's the article I was talking about. Quote: "The Gulf Stream (also known as the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, or AMOC)...".
The Gulf Stream and the AMOC are most definitely not the same thing, ergo your "experts" are not experts. Basically, I do not trust any reporting on climate change as the mainstream media is nothing short of hysterical, and even so-called "science" websites like the one you linked can be little better. I read original academic papers, and since the one that's based on is paywalled the best I can do is a summary by some of the authors available from Maynooth University. There is a more recent paper in Nature Climate Change from August 2021 which I do have sneaky access to ( https://rdcu.be/cspBH ).
Basically, nobody yet understands the dynamics of the AMOC. The August article assumes a bistable state with a possible suddenly switch into the weak mode (called a Stommel Bifurcation). General Circulation Models do not currently support such an event, and the IPCC deems it "unlikely" in the 21st century. There is significant uncertainty about the surface wind-driven component (which is what the Gulf Stream is *actually* a part of). That component is not going to disappear unless the Earth stops spinning -- it didn't disappear even in the ice age. The question is how far south it might be deflected if the AMOC overturning drags it less forcefully northward. For some *actual* expert commentary on this scenario (which incidentally also reminds you that the Gulf Stream is *not* the AMOC), see here: https://www.sciencemediacentre.org/expert-reaction-to-study-looking-at-early-warning-signals-for-a-collapse-of-the-atlantic-meridional-overturning-circulation/
I did not say "The Gulf Stream was Slowing" - experts said so.
https://www.livescience.com/gulf-stream-slowing-climate-change.html
Quote:
"For example they’ve been measuring the Gulf Stream from a satellite, and there are some indications that it has been weakening since the early 1990s."
But now we have our own Reader's Digest scientist who has taken over the reins of the nerd we seem to have got rid of.
Check climate in Valentia Island off the South East coast of Ireland. It has always been the bellwether for the Gulf Stream as it passes the West Coast of Ireland.