Iceland saw record temperatures last year. So why are scientists predicting a ‘deep freeze’?

Scientists have expressed growing concern over a major Atlantic current that could collapse and send northern Europe into the next Ice Age.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260218-iceland-saw-record-temperatures-last-year-so-why-are-scientists-predicting-a-deep-freeze?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#IceAge #AtlanticOcean #Iceland #Greenland #Icebergs #GlobalWarming #AtlanticMeridionalOverturningCirculation #AMOC #Science

Iceland saw record temperatures last year. So why are scientists predicting a ‘deep freeze’?

Scientists have expressed growing concern over a major Atlantic current that could collapse and send northern Europe into the next Ice Age.

Euronews
Channel 4 News - "Collapse of this Atlantic current could change Europe's climate forever." - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JpOpsMOBsL4
#uk #AMOC #AtlanticMeridionalOverturningCirculation
Collapse of this Atlantic current could change Europe's climate forever

YouTube
#Iceland deems possible #Atlantic current collapse a security risk
#AtlanticMeridionalOverturningCirculation, or #AMOC, current brings warm water from the tropics northward toward the Arctic, and the flow of warm water helps keep #Europe's winters mild. But as warming temperatures speed the thaw of Arctic ice and cause meltwater from Greenland's ice sheet to pour into the ocean, scientists warn the cold freshwater could disrupt the current's flow.
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/cop/iceland-sees-security-risk-existential-threat-atlantic-ocean-currents-possible-2025-11-12/ #climatechange
Det är bråttom – mer bråttom än man tidigare förstått. Efter en ny studie är forskare chockade. Risken att Amoc kollapsar är 25 procent – i bästa fall. Om vi st#amoc #atlanticmeridionaloverturningcirculation #klimat&miljö #klimatförändringar #golfströmmen
Amoc närmare kollaps – brytpunkt kan nås 2035
Amoc närmare kollaps – brytpunkt kan nås 2035

Det är bråttom – mer bråttom än man tidigare förstått. Efter en ny studie är forskare chockade. Risken att Amoc kollapsar är 25 procent – i bästa fall. Om vi st

Aftonbladet
Tja, die Klimakatastrophe wird euch keine Pause geben… Die Umkehrung der AMOC könnte die Landwirtschaft in diesem Land mit Sicherheit zum Erliegen bringen! #AMOC #AtlanticMeridionalOverturningCirculation www.spiegel.de/auto/atlanti...

Meinung: Studien zu Kollaps vo...
Studien zu Kollaps von Atlantikzirkulation: Alarm um AMOC

Während sich die Erde weiter erwärmt, könnte es im Norden Europas sehr kalt werden. Ein Ausfall des Golfstroms ist zwar keineswegs sicher, aber laut neuen Klimasimulationen zumindest nicht mehr unwahrscheinlich.

DER SPIEGEL

The #AtlanticMeridionalOverturningCirculation

What's that?

It's what allows people to farm in Northern #Europe

It brings warmth via ocean currents

You look at a map and #London is the same latitude as parts of Hudson Bay in Canada and Kamchatka in Russia

The #AMOC means London isn't frozen over (also why it's cloudy and rainy)

Well maybe London will get some sun in a frigid future

Because failure to address #ClimateCrisis #ClimateChange could shut down the AMOC

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/aug/28/collapse-critical-atlantic-current-amoc-no-longer-low-likelihood-study

I am Scared for Ireland...

YouTube

17-Jul-2025
Tracking #AtlanticMeridionalOverturningCirculation using benthic #foraminifera
New study: More #oxygen in the oxygen-minimum zone associated with weaker #Atlantic overturning circulation

https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/1091560

#science #ocean #current #climateCatastrophe

Tracking Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation using benthic foraminifera

How is ventilation at various depth layers of the Atlantic connected and what role do changes in ocean circulation play? Researchers from Bremen, Kiel and Edinburgh have pursued this question and their study has been published in the professional journal Nature Communications.

EurekAlert!
‘We don’t know where the tipping point is’: climate expert on potential collapse of Atlantic circulation

Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf explains why Amoc breakdown could be catastrophic for both humans and marine life

The Guardian

Via #CTV

Vital system of #AtlanticOcean currents that influences #weather across world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have suggested in new study, a planetary-scale disaster that would transform weather & climate

Several studies in recent yrs have suggested crucial system, the #AtlanticMeridionalOverturningCirculation, #AMOC, could b on course 4 collapse, weakened by warmer ocean temps & disrupted saltiness caused by human-induced #ClimateChange

https://www.ctvnews.ca/climate-and-environment/a-critical-system-of-atlantic-ocean-currents-could-collapse-as-early-as-the-2030s-new-research-suggests-1.6988430

A critical system of Atlantic Ocean currents could collapse as early as the 2030s, new research suggests

A vital system of Atlantic Ocean currents that influences weather across the world could collapse as soon as the late 2030s, scientists have suggested in a new study — a planetary-scale disaster that would transform weather and climate.

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