{"id":709602,"date":"2026-06-17T13:54:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:54:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/709602\/"},"modified":"2026-06-17T13:54:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T13:54:18","slug":"atlantic-cold-blob-could-bring-about-big-chill-rising-seas-study","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/709602\/","title":{"rendered":"Atlantic ‘cold blob’ could bring about big chill, rising seas: study"},"content":{"rendered":"

It\u2019s the attack of the chiller blob.<\/p>\n

While climatologists fear skyrocketing temperatures, scientists are now warning that a \u201ccold blob\u201d in the Atlantic could trigger a global cooling event, among other apocalyptic scenarios, per an alarming study in Geophysical Research Letters.<\/a><\/p>\n

Located South of Greenland and Iceland, this anomalous patch of ocean has seen temps dip by 1.8 degrees Fahrenheit since the 19th Century, Science News reported.<\/a><\/p>\n

Coincidentally, this comes as the United Nations\u2019 influential climate change committee<\/a> has discarded dire temperature increase models spouted by doomsdayers on the Left. <\/p>\n

\"OceanMap of the \u201ccold blob\u201d (displayed in blue) in the Atlantic. Kai-Yuan Li\/UCR<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, a Dutch investigation of data at coastal sites revealed that apocalyptic sea rise projections are likely overblown.<\/p>\n

Per the latest study, this marine cold spot is related to the weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), an oceanic conveyor belt that circulates warm water <\/a>toward the ocean surface from the tropics to the Northern Hemisphere.<\/p>\n

\"Current\u201cThe strong evidence for a weakening AMOC (pictured) is a serious concern for society and policy,\u201d study authors warned. Ruijian Gou, Copernicus Climate Change Service<\/p>\n

This key current, which runs from the Gulf of Mexico to the East Coast and across the Atlantic to Europe, helps maintain the mild climate of Europe, the UK and the East Coast, as well as helping sustain marine life.<\/p>\n

Specifically, the team discovered a significant decline in the level of heat escaping to the atmosphere over the last half-century. <\/p>\n

A substantial portion of this polar plunge appeared to originate in the AMOC, pointing to a flagging heat supply in the region.<\/p>\n

While this sea artery\u2019s rate of decline is yet unclear, past studies project that it could slow between 43% and 59% by 2100 \u2014 60% more than forecast by prior models.<\/p>\n

Were it to collapse completely, it would allegedly bring about a \u201ctipping point,\u201d wherein temperatures in portions of the Northern Hemisphere could plunge by up to 27 degrees Fahrenheit, study authors claim.<\/p>\n

And it\u2019s not just a big chill that\u2019s on the horizon, per the study. Other forecast cataclysmic effects include agriculture-devastating droughts in southern Europe to sea level rise on the coast of North America.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe strong evidence for a weakening AMOC is a serious concern for society and policy,\u201d study authors warned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"It\u2019s the attack of the chiller blob. While climatologists fear skyrocketing temperatures, scientists are now warning that a…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":709603,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[47],"tags":[4253,192,79,3284],"class_list":["post-709602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-climate-change","tag-environment","tag-science","tag-study-says"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=709602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/709602\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/709603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=709602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=709602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=709602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}