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One published study does not equal scientific truth!

There's a more temperate article in the New York Times, that's worth reading analytically. Look at the carefully-phrased responses of other scientists. Some of them appear to be struggling to say something polite about the study. "Interesting," is word used both by victims of amateur chefs and fellow scientists reading a new article when confronted by something they're not sure about swallowing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/05/us/gulf-stream-collapse.h...

Alex Hall, the director of the Center for Climate Science at the University of California, Los Angeles:

"the findings did not signal to him that any collapse of that ocean system might be imminent" "we don’t really know the reaction we’ll cause"

Andrew Pershing, director of climate science at Climate Central:

"The work is fascinating" "The big challenge is, what do we do with that information?"

Susan Lozier, a physical oceanographer and dean at the College of Sciences at Georgia Tech:

She also called Dr. Boers’ study “interesting,” but said she wasn’t convinced that the findings showed that circulation in that ocean system is slowing.



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