In the Telegraph, Zia Weise writes about “a colder-than-usual patch of water just south of Greenland, nicknamed the ‘cold blob’”. This, claims Weis “has some scientists worried that this slowdown in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) is already well under way”. But whatever this blue blob signifies, what this story emerging in the Telegraph reveals is the hands of its new owners.
The hypothesised weakening and perhaps eventual collapse of the Gulf Stream have been haunting alarmist climate prognostications for years. Adherents claim that, as the rest of the world roasts, northwest Europe will be plunged into a frozen hell as the melting of the Arctic ice deprives the oceans of a conveyor that brings warmer waters and winds to the north Atlantic from the southwest.
The claim is a mainstay of those who require stories about ‘tipping points’ to drive a political agenda. Consequently, the hypothesis is vastly more famous than the science underpinning it merits – as is indeed the case with ‘tipping point’ hypotheses in general. And furthermore, such hypotheses therefore generate much greater interest from funding sources, in order to defend narratives from being debunked by, well, science.
In 2024, Denis L. Volkov et al. revealed that observations of the Gulf Stream in Florida, once corrected, revealed that the current “has remained remarkably stable”. An article in Science earlier this year shed light on unequivocal and partial – i.e., cherry-picked – scientific reporting. “Most climate researchers think the AMOC is more resilient than these
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Its all about wealth distribution and stopping the modern World, using the justification that the ends justifies the means.
“It doesn’t matter what is true, it only matters what people believe is true”
Paul Watson
“We routinely wrote scare stories…Our press reports were more or less true…We were out to whip the public into a frenzy about the environment.”
Jim Sibbison
“The only way to get our society to truly change is to frighten people with the possibility of a catastrophe.”
Daniel Botkin
“The data don’t matter. We’re not basing our recommendations [for reductions in carbon dioxide emissions] upon the data. We’re basing them upon the climate models.”
Chris Folland UK Meteorological Office:
“We redistribute de facto the world’s wealth by climate policy…Basically it’s a big mistake to discuss climate policy separately from the major themes of globalization…One has to free oneself from the illusion that international climate policy is environmental policy. This has almost nothing to do with environmental policy anymore.”
Ottmar Edenhoffer
“No matter if the science is all phoney, there are collateral environmental benefits…. climate change [provides] the greatest chance to bring about justice and equality in the world.”
Christine Stewart
This climate propaganda and the DTs constant attacks on Reform stop me subscribing. I don’t give my £ to people who hate me. Shame, because there is some useful content.
I recently did the 3 free month trial and was encouraged by the comments sections, overwhelmingly anti climatism, and trad small c conservative.
A DS expose of who owns our newspapers and web based news platforms would be useful. Who are they? What is their agenda, worldview etc
I must thank Ben Pile for this corroboration of my view about the Telegraph. It has prompted me to cancel my subscription. On phoning the cancellation line, I was answered by a man speaking English with a very clear German accent!
Given that wind is thought to be the most likely driver of Arctic sea ice coverage, and was propbably responsible for the record low of 2012, then I think Longhurst’s hypothesis about the AMOC seems eminently reasonable.
News stories about what MIGHT happen are not news stories. They are propaganda.
More evidence of the DT committing editorial suicide. Just a vehicle for propaganda, just like all of the MSM. Stopped reading the rag ages ago; looks like it will stay that way.
The good news is, if you read the comments below the articles by Weiss, Stanley and Ambrosia Ever-Preaching is that the reading are having none of it. It’s just a torrent of sceptic abuse.