{"id":51577,"date":"2025-09-08T21:38:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:38:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/51577\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T21:38:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T21:38:08","slug":"gulf-stream-faces-collapse-by-2060-plunging-uk-into-30c-ice-age-world-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/51577\/","title":{"rendered":"Gulf Stream \u2018faces collapse by 2060\u2019 plunging UK into -30C Ice Age | World | News"},"content":{"rendered":"

Temperatures could plumment across Europe, if the Gulf Stream goes, despite global warming on the rise.<\/p>\n

Experts say it would lower rainfall amounts, and bring in even drier summers, which would cripple farming across the continent.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Earlier this month, Teresa Ribera, who’s in charge of the EU’s green policies,<\/a> suggested that changes to the Gulf Stream should be treated as a national security issue, gowing to the severe impact of it shutting fown.<\/p>\n

The study, which analyses 25 different models of the climate, found that even under a ‘moderate’ emissions chance, the collapse could start from 2063. This would need global heat to rise by around 2.7 degrees Celsius above levels recorded before the industrial revolution.<\/p>\n

They already stand at 1.3 degrees.<\/p>\n

Sybren Drijfhout, who heads up the earth and science section of the University of Southhampton told\u00a0Politico that the study was “solid”.<\/p>\n

They added: “As far as current models suggest, we conclude that the risk of a\u00a0 […] shutdown is greater than previously thought.”<\/p>\n

“There\u2019s a sense out there that climate change has taken a backseat because we\u2019re so busy dealing with [other] pressing concerns,” he wrote to colleagues at the University.<\/p>\n

\u201cProgress takes time… it\u2019s not linear,\u201d he added, insisting that \u201cthere\u2019ll be moments when attention wanes. So a big thanks to these scientists for giving us another serious climate wake-up call.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Temperatures could plumment across Europe, if the Gulf Stream goes, despite global warming on the rise. Experts say…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":51578,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[269],"tags":[442,18,440,19,17,133],"class_list":{"0":"post-51577","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-environment","8":"tag-climate-change","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-environment","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-science"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51577","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=51577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51577\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/51578"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}