Why some scientists are worried about a surprisingly cold ‘blob’ in the North Atlantic Ocean

[LiberalArkie]

It is, for our home planet, an extremely warm year.

Indeed, last week we learned from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration that the first eight months of 2015 were the hottest such stretch yet recorded for the globe’s surface land and oceans, based on temperature records going to 1880. It’s just the latest evidence that we are, indeed, on course for a record-breaking warm year in 2015.

Yet, if you look closely, there’s one part of the planet that is bucking the trend. In the North Atlantic Ocean south of Greenland and Iceland, the ocean surface has seen very cold temperatures for the past eight months. What’s up with that?

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[TexasProgresive]

1. My theory and not my own

cold fresh water melt from Greenland is flowing into the N. Atlantic which is disrupting the Atlantic conveyor. This could lead to extreme winters in Ireland, Britain and other coastal European nations whose climate is moderated by the Gulf stream.

[LiberalArkie]

2. I wonder how accurate "The Day After Tomorrow" will be

[edhopper]

3. The theory of a cold Northern hemisphere

was fine. Even "snow hurricanes".

But ocean water freezing mid wave and temps approaching absolute zero were far fetched, to say the least.

[LiberalArkie]

5. Yea, But it made for wonderful effects!!!

[edhopper]

6. True

it was still a fun movie. And at least it had more validity than "2012". I like Emmerich's big budget sci-fi movies, mindless fun.

But in TDAT, they were in a fucking Library and didn't think about burning the books to keep warm!

[LiberalArkie]

7. But they did go after the law library and spared the Gutenberg. That would have been a good

place to hold up, what with the thick walls and a lot of books along the walls for more insulation. At least it made people think for a few days about climate change.

[ScreamingMeemie]

12. The helicopters freezing mid-flight was pretty impressive.

[Orrex]

4. Fun fact: the Atlantic Conveyor was also a ship sunk during the Falklands War.

LINK

[Sunlei]

8. to bad we can't transport/pipeline the greenland fresh meltwater right to central/west usa

and let it soak in. or drop chunks of ice instead of those red chemicals on wildfire lands.

[Hortensis]

9. If true, on the plus side maybe our vacation MH in Florida won't

finally be carried off by a hurricane after all as things get more placid out there.

On the negative side, high waters during storms already wash over the patio. Complete collapse of the AMOC (which could add up to another 30 inches of sea rise on top of the sea rise already predicted) may be considered unlikely, but far less wouldn't be at all good for our already endangered water-view living room. Build that seawall up, or complete waste of money? Hmmm...

Then there're the frequent tropical rains that keep our little garden lush and much of the U.S. really, really depends on. Those might not journey up north nearly so often....

I wonder what the contribution of all that right-wing hot air is to global warming. Someone should do some cost analyses on that, starting with short-term money and mortality and moving on to their expected contribution to national decline over the next 20 years alone.

[Javaman]

10. if this continues...

the long term implications for European agriculture will be devastating.

[Scuba]

11. So I'm not crazy - it has been cooler than average at my house!

[LiberalArkie]

13. Down here in central Arkansas, it has been relatively mild summer. I don't

think we had any 100's this year, of course we sometimes get a surprise during December.