Last year, Georgina Rannard of the BBC reported that “scientists say” a weakening Gulf Stream could collapse as early as this year, a dire process that would bring catastrophic changes in the weather in the northern hemisphere. Routine fear mongering, of course, from the Net Zero promoting BBC and this ‘tipping point’ scare is common among alarmists. After all, everyone knows about the 2004 dystopian Hollywood blockbuster The Day After Tomorrow. ‘Most of us are going to die’ is a great scoop, it is just a shame about the facts. Ground-breaking new work from scientists at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has discovered that the huge flow of tropical water through the Florida Straits has remained “remarkably stable” for over 40 years.
The Florida current is a key component of the Gulf Stream, which is an important part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC). This current flows north, raising temperatures in the higher latitudes by up to 10°C. Warm tropical water flows between the Florida Peninsula, Cuba and the Bahamas at speeds up to seven kilometres per hour and provides most of the heat taken north by the AMOC. The paper notes that several recent studies have used a possible flow decline to speculate about a collapse in the Gulf Stream and the AMOC. Thus, clickbait science papers using computer models have been picked up by mainstream media and politicians to provoke fear of a Gulf Stream catastrophe.
Using data derived from motion-induced change in submarine cable voltages, and adjusting for errors caused by past geomagnetic data processing, the NOAA scientists state that their new 40-year record “challenges” the previously made assertions on the statistically significant decline of the Florida current. The respected climate scientist Judith Curry has hailed the new paper from the U.S. weather service as “important” and notes that the AMOC is not weakening despite it being touted as a climate tipping point.
It is unlikely that mainstream media will touch this paper since it kicks much of their fear mongering on the Gulf Stream into touch. Last year’s excitement suggesting imminent collapse was caused by a paper written by Peter Ditlevsen from the University of Copenhagen, who told the constantly worried Guardian that “we should be very worried”. The alarmists’ alarmist Professor Stefan Rahmstorf of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact and Research said the Ditlevsen paper added to the “evidence” that the AMOC collapse “is much nearer than we thought”. We can’t rule out crossing the tipping point in the next decade or two, he added.
The NOAA scientists note that most climate models suggest a 34-45% decline in the present strength of the AMOC within less than 80 years. A number of ‘proxy’ records are said to indicate that the AMOC may already be slowing down on a centennial scale. There has been criticism of the Ditlevsen findings, with a subsequent paper observing that the uncertainties, mostly around sea surface temperature data, were too large to predict a tipping point for the AMOC. Such is the unreliability of climate computer models that the tipping point could occur anywhere between now and infinity. It all depends, it would seem, what is loaded into the model in the first place. But whatever is loaded, there appears to be a near guarantee that unquestioning activists in mainstream media will report any fear-packed message to a wider public.
Referring to the recent controversy, the NOAA scientists state that the ability of temperature based indices to represent the AMOC has been questioned. The recent reductions of sea surface temperatures in the subpolar North Atlantic is often assumed to be an indication of an AMOC slowdown. But the scientists suggest it could “largely be driven by the atmosphere alone without any changes in ocean circulation”. Further up the Gulf Stream, between New Jersey and Bermuda, the NOAAS authors go on to note that direct measurements from 1992 do not support suggestions that the AMOC has started to substantially slow down. Hydrographic data are said to be sparse, but “no significant weakening of the AMOC has been detected”.
The variations of the AMOC are being hotly disputed in scientific circles. Much of the research into this important ocean circulation is recent and a great deal needs to be learnt. The NOAA authors point out that investigating the variability of the Florida current “is of particular importance for detecting and better understanding changes in the Earth’s climate system, as well as for interpreting regional variations in weather, sea level and eco-systems”.
But all too often we see how ‘settled’ science – a harmful unwillingness to consider all climate variation other than those assumed to be caused by humans – debases much of the effort. ‘Blacklists’ of climate sceptics are compiled, academics lose their careers and fines and imprisonment are demanded for those who fail to toe the authorised line. Mainstream media only seem interested in silly sci-fi predictions of the imminent demise of the Gulf Stream. It grabs the headlines, is easy work if you can get it and plays out to an agreed political narrative. Like the multi-year record growth of coral at the Great Barrier Reef, the cyclical Arctic sea ice, the obvious corruptions in many temperature measurements and the astonishing CO2 ‘greening’ of the planet, the lies are all told by omitting obvious, easily obtainable and important facts.
Chris Morrison is the Daily Sceptic’s Environment Editor.
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No vax (obviously) got Covid July 2021. Family all got it except the youngest 15 year old. We managed the symptoms with Ivermectin, Hydroxychloroquine, vitamins D&C and Zinc. 2 days were like a bad flu without a cough. Not back to normal until about day 8.
Since then anytime I felt a cold coming I took Hydroxychloroquine half dose with Zinc and Vitamin C. Never got sick again until a month ago with a cold for about 4 days.
No reinfections, never wore a mask, ditto wife. Youngest still never seemed to have gotten it.
Both unjabbed, my husband and I have taken vitamin supplements every day since this started and a couple of months ago I wasn’t feeling well and took myself off to bed for about 24 hours, headache, sneezes, blocked nose – no cough though and bounced back after 3 days. My husband didn’t catch anything. Was it Covid? – don’t know, don’t care. We are both in good health and for that I am grateful but its no thanks to the NHS!
No vax, no mask, no extra supplements, no problem.
Had a 3 day cold once in 2 years. May or may not have been “covid”. Don’t know, don’t care, never tested.
Oh, and made a point of shaking as many hands and giving as many hugs as I could.
Nothing keeps disease away like a happy, cheerful soul.
Same here, one bout of flu-like thing that laid me low for a week or so, one mild cold. About average for me for a two-year period. Plenty of liquids and bed rest for the flu, ignored the mild cold and carried on with life.
Family of 5. No vaccinations. All had Covid at least once, symptoms for each were about 2 days of headache, some back aches. All symptoms gone within a week.
A useful report. Regarding the claim that the “vaccine” product could reduce the virus transmission to third parties, to be fair to the manufacturers, they did not appear to issue such a claim. At least, in the paperwork issued to me by the NHS organisation back in 2021, they stated that they “do not know yet….” I suspect that the claims were generated by the usual suspects, not real specialists in that field.
I never accepted the offer, and have not used it. The last time I had some kind of respiratory infection was early in 2020, before the panic ensued. About a year later, I did shell out to have a private assessment to see if I had any relevant T-cells on board, which was inconclusive, so it must have been something else then. Suggests that I have never suffered from C19 at all, unless it’s so benign that I confused it with my normal seasonal pollen allergy issues.
Strangely my hayfever has been a lot less these past 2 years.
Anecdotal; we have four healthy adults in the house, all under 35. Two people in the house are uninjected, the other two were “fully boosted” at that point, despite warnings from me.
We all caught the virus at the same time, sometime around last October. Admittedly the symptoms were a little different to a regular virus, but definitely not worse.
Myself and the other un-injected got over it in a day. Personally I got through it with a bottle of whisky, pizza and Band of Brothers boxset. The subsequent hangover was worse than the virus.
The other two injected people had it hit them harder and differently. Not only were they physically more ill, but they suffered mentally, which I am attributing to their fear playing tricks on them along with some cognitive dissonance. They were locked up for around 3 days, and were significantly fatigued and generally run down for a week after. Thankfully they have come around to rejecting any more gov’t crap.
Again, anecdotal, but I suspect we all know of something like this.
I had a weird thing several weeks back whereby I had all over body aches, even my fingers and eyeballs ached, but I just took ibuprofen and went about my business, even kept up my exercise routine. The strangest thing is that I lost my sense of smell and taste without having even the slightest sniffle. That’s only ever happened when I’ve had a bunged up nose so that was novel. Taste and smell returned after a week gradually. I lost 4kg in a week as not being able to taste food does dampen one’s appetite for food somewhat.
I don’t test so it was just some random lurgy as far as I’m concerned and nothing to write home about. Life is and always has been full of these occasional maladies that pop up out of the blue. Normal people just get on with their lives and don’t behave like wet blankets.
Lovely article with which to close my evening; the smell of vindication grows sweeter every day. (And walking past the local health centre I noticed a sign up stating that in line with new guidelines, face coverings are now optional).
I’ve taken the FLCCC stuff that I could obtain plus a weekly dose of IVM and my brush with the bug lasted 6 days; husband the same minus the IVM, (although he took a few doses when in the thick of it) and cleared it in about 9 days. No after-effects, unlike most vaxxed acquaintances I’ve spoken with. We are 64 and 70. Neither of us jabbed; would love to be quizzed by a medic so I could gloat about it but unlikely to be given the satisfaction.
I’d enjoy the sensation more, but clearly our betters have more miseries in store for us with the energy prices, especially for those running businesses.
If that fool who’s been at the helm this past couple of years shows me that smirk just once more as he spouts his bs, I won’t be responsible for my actions.
Fit, healthy 60+ female. Think I had Covid in November 2019. Unjabbed; carried on as close as possible to life as normal throughout the restrictions and regularly stretched “the rules.” Regularly take Vit C, Zinc, cod liver oil and echinacea.
Is this the same group that I’m assuming quite a few people here are in SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine Control Group that Toby is a member of and suggested Lockdown Sceptics might join? This was way back just as the experimental gene therapy treatment jabs were about to be forced upon us. Just asking.
I remember there was some suspicion around here that the group might have been an attempt at data-gathering of the non-compliant. There was still a wary atmosphere around vaccine passports and making the jabs compulsory before entering public spaces, so many of us elected to safeguard our privacy until the true aims of the group became apparent.
Seems they were ok but those were febrile times – understandably.
You knew all this from the beginning.
I knew all this from the beginning.
But who are we?
According to this peer-reviewed analysis, only 0.4% of participants were hospitalized. And then it mentions ‘…low incidences of severe disease, hospitalization, or death.’
But how do they know how many of the participants died?
As the analysis is based on self-reported monthly questionnaires, if a participant dies, they wouldn’t be able to self-report that they had died, and it’s unlikely that a relative or friend would report to the Control Group Cooperative project that the person died.
So if a participant stops self-reporting each month, how would the authors of this analysis know if the person had died due to Covid, or died with Covid, or died due to some other reason, or was alive and had just stopped self-reporting?
It was just a huge money laundering exercise and lots of government officials and their friends made a fortune out of it. At the same time they managed to scare a large part of the population and not only damage their physical health but mental health too.To try to deny we have Immune systems was the final straw for me! I will continue to hope for an International Court to bring those criminals to justice.