and there's still a consensus forming, but he has the chops and he has a point .. there are comparisons to be made to the Pacific North West and being on the trailing edge (spin wise) of a large continental mass.
Both can be right. The heat budget of the NE Pacific ocean, without an equivalent to the Gulf Stream, may well explain the milder winters in Seattle, but the NE Atlantic's heat budget is still "goosed" by the Gulf Stream and mixing. The paper's argument doesn't engage that argument. It deals with atmospheric changes postulated as a consequence of freshwater anomalies caused by arctic melting.
Or, perhaps not:
The Source of Europe's Mild Climate
https://www.americanscientist.org/article/the-source-of-euro...For context this is mostly from Richard Seager from back in 2002
https://ocp.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/people/seager/
https://www.atmos.washington.edu/~david/Gulf.pdf
and there's still a consensus forming, but he has the chops and he has a point .. there are comparisons to be made to the Pacific North West and being on the trailing edge (spin wise) of a large continental mass.