This week’s freakish and terrifying North Atlantic “Bomb” cyclone, is developing over an area critical to the Global oceanic system, where salty waters descend into the deep ocean and begin a long journey south.
That area has developed into an anomalously cold patch in a globally warming ocean – the subject of this video from last spring, featuring Oceanographer Stefan Rahmstorf, Atmosphere expert Mike Mann, and Glaciologist Jason Box. Rahmstorf’s paper on the subject had just been published.