By Kirsten Ripper & Euronews with AP
17/06/2026 - 7:58 GMT+2
In the North Atlantic south of Greenland lies the so-called "Cold Blob", a mysterious cold patch that is regarded as the only place on Earth where it has actually been getting colder over recent decades.
A team led by Prof. Dr Stefan Rahmstorf from the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK) has now published a new study on the "warming hole" in the Atlantic Ocean in the "Geophysical Research Letters (source in German)".
On the basis of an analysis of temperature data sets from measurements in the North Atlantic, the research team concludes that it is primarily changing heat transport in the ocean that is causing the "Cold Blob".
