“Atlantic conveyor belt – still going strong and will be the day after tomorrow“. Anthony Watts hints that he now knows that what Steven Goddard presented as a discarded climate change prediction for the UK was really just a movie dramatization. The Gulf Stream, part of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation, has not slowed down!
I think this is officially as close as Anthony has ever come to a retraction.
2010/03/31 Update: The whole fabricated accusation of failed predictions of a weakening of the AMOC is scrutinized skeptically over on The Way Things Break.
New paper (by out in Nature Geoscience on the flood from Lake Agassiz at the beginning of the Younger Dryas which is thought to have slowed down the AMO and plunged Europe into cold.
It seems one requires a deluge. The IPCC are not expecting a deluge of freshwater into the N. Atlantic, rather a steady flow.
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v464/n7289/full/nature08954.html