Jim Church

Melting Antarctic ice was reported to be causing a dramatic slowdown in deep ocean currents, which "could have a disastrous effect on the climate”, parroted the world’s propagandizing and wolf-crying media.
But alas, facts are a happy accident wherever the likes of the BBC are concerned, the circulation of fear is their modus operandi and they’ll use any old junk science in order to press it onto a dutiful yet increasingly tired and crisis-weary public.

The latest legacy media fear-drive states that the less dense fresh water from the melting ice cap will interrupt the downwards movement of water towards the sea bottom which, in turn, will affect world oceanic currents. The activist-science blog the Conversation reported that "torrents of Antarctic meltwater are slowing the currents that drive our vital ocean ‘overturning’ – and threaten its collapse”. While the BBC themselves, clearly unsaddled by the burden of credibility, which was lost many moons ago, referred their intellectually undemanding readers to the movie The Day After Tomorrow — go science!

Worst still, this latest round of circle-drumming drivel is based on nothing but modeling — 35 million computer hours of modeling, no less, based on the IPCC’s "high emissions” scenario. But as recently reviewed by Dr. Judith Curry, this worst-case scenario has been dropped in many scientific circles on the grounds it is recognized as implausible –with global warming of barely 0.1C over the last two decades likely a factor in this rug-sweeping– yet still, Dr. Curry notes that extreme prophesies based on this scenario still routinely do the MSM rounds, and even remain in IPCC pages. "Rejecting these extreme scenarios has rendered obsolete much of the climate literature and assessments of the last decade,” points out Dr. Curry.

No, Antarctic Ice Isn't Melting Into Oblivion; + Shiveluch Erupts (Again) - Electroverse
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Tim adds:

Ridiculous stupidity. The primary ocean current in the Antarctic is the Antarcic Circumpolar Current, which encircles Antarctica. It's a very broad and deep cold water current that traps the cold water inside the Antarctic Circle, mostly. This meltwater (which isn't happening anyway) would hardly affect the world's oceans. If they were talking about the Arctic perhaps but it won't happen in the Antarctic.

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