Apparently, many Japanese people are blissfully unaware that there is any difference between the distant yet distinct European landmasses of Ireland and Iceland; the problem stems from the rather similar phonetic pronunciation of their words ‘Aiulanndo’ (Ireland) and ‘Aisulando’ (Iceland). But, if current climate scaremongering upon the Emerald Isle is accurate, the tongue-tied Japs may have been correct all along, with Dublin set to become every bit as frozen as the ice-caps above downtown Reykjavik sometime within the next 25-50 years.
Iceland – sorry, I mean Ireland, I’m starting to turn Japanese myself here, now – is currently governed by a coalition between the Fine Gaolers, the Fianna Fáilures and the Greens, with the latter having naturally landed the plum role of Climate Minister for their own TD (what the Irish call MPs), in the shape of a man named Eamon Ryan. In an op-ed for the Irish Times on September 3rd, Ryan warned that, thanks to alterations in the Atlantic Gulf Stream caused by climate change, by the middle of this century, Ireland could become an icy, snow-bound wasteland, like Star Wars’ Planet Hoth, but with more potatoes. Ryan tweeted pure hyperbole as follows on the day his newspaper article went out:
“Some say the world will end in fire/Some say in ice,” once observed the American poet Robert Frost, whose name perhaps implied it would be the latter. Eamon Ryan thought the now unlucky Irish would be one of the few nationalities in the
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If the stream of warm water does not go to Ireland anymore, where does it go?
Does it mean another part of the world is getting warmer?
Who will house all the millionaires and billionaires whose beach mansions are inundated, you know the ones they still keep building in those places, even though they (must) know (surely) are about to fall under the waves.
Or the financiers that finance the properties, or the poor Insurers who must stump up on the policies, whose highly paid Actuaries failed to warn them of this impending danger.
Steven Tucker’s articles always make me chuckle. Good stuff.
Very good Steven, as usual – but these damn puns… getting very tedious.
‘Quick! Someone dig that man up and give him a job at the Irish Met Office!’
The ultimate DEI hire? Or should that be DIE hire?
AMOC (Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation), Never heard of it and I’m meteorologist trained, and have over a thousand Atlantic crossings under my belt. It’s about as made up as Covid is still, and has nothing to do with the weather over the U.K. & Ireland. We’re warmer than we should be because of the Gulf Stream, but could never be like the very cold continental climates purely because of geography which isn’t changing although that might be the next scare the maniacs think up. Look up ‘Continental Climate’ vs ‘Maritime Climate’.
oh, BTW, fifty years ago when I started my Atlantic crossings there used to be something called ‘The North Atlantic Cycle’ or ‘Oscillation’. It described short-term changes in what controlled the path of the weather systems. The word to watch is ‘cycle’. It means it goes both ways over time and not off a cliff.
‘….because of geography which isn’t changing…..’
Maybe Alfred Wegener (if he was still alive) would take issue with that. If you add the phrase ‘fast enough’ that would be OK.
quote …. ‘O’Gormless gave an interview to the Irish Examiner airily explaining the current mass influx of migrants into the country was no temporary blip, but something he expected to see expand exponentially year on year’ …. yes it WILL. Not necessarily due to Global Boiling but due to the Irish Government signing up to the EU’s ‘Pact for Migration’ which makes migration into Europe continuous and permanent.
ALL EU countries are expected to sign up to this insanity, so ALL of ’em will now have their population increased every month, month after month, year after year … until?
“…we end up with a very harsh, cold local environment, while the rest of the world burns.”
What an image! Will all the new immigrants be fleeing from Ireland because they cannot stand the cold, or will Ireland be desperately trying to keep out immigrants from the rest of the world trying to escape the burning heat?
Exciting times ahead!
Re AMOC, as with many things, it’s only partially true about it’s effect on the local weather cum climate, The other item that is significant is the Gulf Jet Stream, which is in the sea, transferring relatively warm water across the Atlantic well to the north, and has the effect of places like the Hebrides being a lot warmer than parts of Quebec at a similar latitude. Put the Gulf Stream and the AMOC together and the scaremongers will have kittens.
However, in the real world, the watery side of it seems to be relatively stable in the UK, compared with the tropospheric jet, which is pretty variable in the short term. I wonder if there were any ancestors of the scaremongers in 1948, 1963, or 1976?
So, Ireland will become inhabitable in future after global boiling caused it to freeze and therefore, lots of people fleeing from climate change must be settled there at public expense now? Is this an attempt to lure global majoritists into a trap to genocide them, fathomed by the terribly white Irish ruling caste? Or what?
I think we urgently need to invent a system to elect politicians who are demonstably at least as capable of making statements which actually make sense as secondary school graduates are usually expected to be. Eg, let each candidate write an essay on a political or historical topic of his choice and then let voters vote on the essays in order to elect or not elect a candidate.
And may the best AI win!
I was under the impression that the jetstream and the gulfstream could only possibly stop if the world stopped spinning or the worlds temperatures evened out. They are caused by the coriolis effect. So as long as the world keeps spinning and there’s temperature differentials in parts of the world (e.g. Poles vs equator) then they cannot shut down. Help me if I got that wrong anyone…
Your are correct, at least as far as the Jet Stream is concerned. Back in the 1960s the BBC, before it got involved in eco- and climate-alarmism scams, aired a multi-part series hosted by one of the well-known weather forecast presenters, explaining how weather works. The episode cam in decreasing order of scale; they began with the Big Picture (temperature difference between the poles and the equator), leading to convection. It moved on to the effect of Earth’s rotation, which causes both the pattern of prevailing winds and the Jet Stream (both explicable on a large scale by standard fluid mechanics including the Coriolis Effect) and the way it is “unstable” and strongly influenced by The Rockies and other high land, causing it to wander chaotically, but within bounds. The series moved on to the formation of depressions and anticyclones. These are partially predictable both from theoretical models and observation, leading to the “life cycle” of depressions, typically (in the UK) forming over the Atlantic and passing eastwards over the UK. (I can’t recall any discussion of the Gulf Stream, but I am sure it would have featured as it is so important in setting the climate of the UK.)… Read more »
When you cover every base how can you ever be wrong? But when everything that happens is due to your theory then you are not indulging in science. So now that we got the “science” out of the way we can concentrate on what it is really about ——-Politics. The Politics of controlling the worlds wealth, resources and people. (Sustainable Development)————-Climate Change is the excuse used for the idea that unregulated consumerism is unsustainable and people will have to learn to make do with less of everything. Or as one “Chief Scientist” put it “We will all have to accept big lifestyle changes, travel less, eat less, consume less. But eventually some form of compulsion or rationing will be necessary”. —– Mass immigration helps with the climate agenda, because it dilutes National Identity and makes Global Governance easier as we all are supposed to feel just like citizens of the world rather than of individual nations, and what better way to govern globally than with global treaties?
Unlike the English, the Irish have a tradition and know how to fight back against an arrogant Elite which is ignoring their plight and destroying their lives.
They’d better start doing it soon.
Yes the clock is ticking and the Marxist plan is taking off.
It’s one minute to midnight.
There’s not much to smile about in the news these days, but this was a welcome exception, so thanks for that!
To misquote Yeats
Fertile Irelands dead and gone
It is with O’Leary in the grave
The Irish are easily led and are propagandised 24/7 by the BBC (funded by the EU & the usual World disrupters )
Sinn Fein, who were formed on an Independent Irish State ticket, have become EU lapdogs so it is all downhill from here.
Oh the irony of the IRA/Sinn Fein which was an uber nationalist Ireland for the Irish band of brothers is now a subsidiary of the EU. It supports unlimited immigration of non christians yet it used to go to war over differences of practice and small differemces of belief among different branches of christianity.
They used to be like shia and sunni but now they embrace those of other beliefs over their own.
I think you’re getting the Jet stream and the Gulf stream muddled?
Indeed! Ironically, the Jet Stream (in the air) is far more influential in affecting changes in the weather than the Gulf Stream (in the ocean, being part of the AMOC and hence part of the global circulation) Pier Corbyn, who makes his living from monthly weather forecasts, pays great attention to the configuration of the Jet Stream. That configuration, which looks like a giant snake eating its tail centred on the North Pole and wriggling around the mid-latitudes, is constantly shifting week by week UK weather on a monthly basis is dominated by whether the jet stream passes to the North or to the South of the British Isles. The jet stream is relatively easy to locate, measure and model compared to the AMOC. The alarmists, who make a living from four-yearly scary scenarios, delight in the uncertainty of the models and the possibility of “tipping points” at some vague time in the future. My opinion? JS=unstable weather; AMOC=stable climate, SF=WEF.