Sun’s activity controls Greenland temperatures

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https://news.agu.org/press-release/suns-activity-controls-greenland-temperatures/

[font face=Serif][font size=5]Sun’s activity controls Greenland temperatures[/font]

16 July 2015

[font size=3]WASHINGTON, D.C. – The sun’s activity could be affecting a key ocean circulation mechanism that plays an important role in regulating Greenland’s climate, according to a new study. The phenomenon could be partially responsible for cool temperatures the island experienced in the late 20th century and potentially lead to increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet in the coming decades, the new research suggests.

Scientists have sought to understand why Greenland cooled during the 1970s through the early 1990s while most of the Northern Hemisphere experienced rising temperatures as a result of greenhouse warming.

The new study suggests high solar activity starting in the 1950s and continuing through the 1980s played a role in slowing down ocean circulation between the South Atlantic and the North Atlantic oceans. Combined with an influx of fresh water from melting glaciers, this slow-down halted warm water and air from reaching Greenland and cooled the island while temperatures rose across the rest of the Northern Hemisphere, according to the new study accepted for publication in Geophysical Research Letters, a journal of the American Geophysical Union.

The new research also suggests weak solar activity, like the sun is currently experiencing, could slowly fire up the ocean circulation mechanism, increasing the amount of warm water and air flowing to Greenland.

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[mackdaddy]

1. Another inaccurate article title.

The first line of the article "The sun’s activity could be affecting a key ocean circulation mechanism" is pretty far from "controls Greenland temperatures". I wonder if the editors actually read the articles.

I do not doubt that the suns intensity could have an affect over time in this case affecting the Gulf
Stream Currents and the melting, but this cooler solar change has probably be overwhelmed by the heat forcing from Green house gas as the Green House gains momentum.

The kinked jet streams, Soot deposits, Warmer Atlantic waters, all seem to be now "controlling" the Greenland ice melt more than the minor variations of of the sun's intensity now.

[Binkie The Clown]

2. The word "controls" is utterly bogus in this context.

That should read "might influence", or "may have an effect upon."