Global Cooling ?

In January, 2019, then freshman Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) claimed the world “is going to end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change.”

To me, it’s always interesting when the vernacular changes. “Global warming” has become “climate change” … will it next become “global cooling?” You laugh! However, in a published 2019 Nature Geoscience article it was pointed out that the waters in the Disko Bay region of Greenland have cooled to temperatures not seen in more than 30 years.

The water in Disko Bay is about 3.6 degrees cooler than a few years ago, study authors said. The result of this cooling is that the Jakobshavn Glacier is growing.

From BlazeNews:

“For the last 20 years, the Jakobshavn Glacier in Greenland was one of the fastest shrinking ice sheets in the world, losing on average 1.8 miles of ice annually while thinning 130 feet per year, according to The Associated Press.

But in 2016 something changed: The glacier began growing again, at about the same rate it was previously retreating, researchers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory said.

‘At first we didn’t believe it. We had pretty much assumed that Jakobshavn would just keep going on as it had over the last 20 years,’ Ala Khazendar, the study’s lead author, said, according to USA Today.”

More from the AP:

“A natural cyclical cooling of North Atlantic waters likely caused the glacier to reverse course, said study lead author Ala Khazendar, a NASA glaciologist on the Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) project. Khazendar and colleagues say this coincides with a flip of the North Atlantic Oscillation — a natural and temporary cooling and warming of parts of the ocean that is like a distant cousin to El Nino in the Pacific.”

Perhaps AOC isn’t aware that the ocean around Greenland is actually cooling, but when she learns this news will “climate change” become “global cooling?”

3/7/23