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Atlantic Ocean's Waters Reversed Direction, Study Finds
LiveScience.com ^ | 11/3/10 | Charles Q. Choi

Posted on 11/03/2010 4:57:50 PM PDT by NormsRevenge

Although it's said that still waters run deep, now scientists find that deep waters aren't still - in fact, the deep waters of the Atlantic Ocean seem to have reversed their direction of flow since the last time ice dominated the Earth.

Instead of heading southward as they do now, these abyssal waters once flowed northward roughly 20,000 years ago, back when the world saw ice sheets more than a mile high, a new study suggests.

The change in flow could have accompanied profound changes in climate, researchers explained.

Climate connection

In the Atlantic, the Gulf Stream brings warm surface water northward from the tropics to high latitudes, where it cools, sinks and flows southward in the deep ocean. The way that water flows in the ocean helps redistribute large amounts of heat - and in this way is critical to how the world's climate works.

The manner in which this Atlantic circulation behaved when global climate was different has proven controversial. Contradictory lines of evidence from during the cold peak of the ice age - the last glacial maximum - make it difficult for scientists to determine whether this ocean circulation was strongly or weakly southward back then.

Now scientists have evidence that such circulation was not only weak, but actually flowed in the opposite direction. The current pattern apparently only arose in the past 10,000 years.

(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: atlanticocean; catastrophism; direction; globalwarming; godsgravesglyphs; reversed; waters
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks; steelyourfaith

AC/DC currents ping!


21 posted on 11/03/2010 11:35:24 PM PDT by ApplegateRanch (Not bought, and nobody's bot.)
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To: ApplegateRanch; scripter; SolitaryMan; mmanager; markomalley; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra; Nipfan; ...
Thanx ApplegateRanch !

 


Beam me to Planet Gore !

22 posted on 11/04/2010 1:51:40 AM PDT by steelyourfaith (ObamaCare Death Panels: a Final Solution to the looming Social Security crisis ?)
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To: NormsRevenge

The models all agree on two things: We’re doomed, and it’s our fault.

The enviros are split on whether it’s a good thing that we (mankind) are doomed. Some want to hold the weather constant (yeah, that will happen). Others just want to make it impossible for man to survive because the world would be better off without us. (If the world were a paradise, and there were no people to enjoy it, would it still be a paradise? I stay up at night pondering such questions.)


23 posted on 11/04/2010 2:23:26 AM PDT by Rocky (REPEAL IT!)
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To: NormsRevenge
I don’t know but I bet it’s cold in Europe this winter..

Yes, and there will be little doubt about the freezing being man-made.

24 posted on 11/04/2010 2:32:17 AM PDT by meadsjn (Sarah 2012, or sooner)
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To: colorado tanker

Great, now everyone knows and we’ll all pay more taxes..


25 posted on 11/04/2010 2:41:24 AM PDT by MaxMax (Conservatism isn't a party)
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To: NormsRevenge

That article was poorly written and lacked graphics that would have been worth 1000 words.


26 posted on 11/04/2010 5:07:46 AM PDT by Renfield (Turning apples into venison since 1999!)
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To: MaxMax

:-))


27 posted on 11/04/2010 9:48:05 AM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: NormsRevenge

So, it’s now the Flug Stream into the Flug fo Ocixem?


28 posted on 11/04/2010 9:51:04 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys: Can't skipper a boat, Can't drive, Can't ski, Can't fly. But they KNOW what's best!)
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To: NormsRevenge
Atlantic Ocean's Waters Reversed Direction, Study Finds

True, twice a day.

29 posted on 11/04/2010 1:03:24 PM PDT by CedarDave (Juan Williams to NPR: "You and your far left-wing mob fired me. Wasn't that enough for you? ")
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To: NormsRevenge; SunkenCiv; All

The final sentence on the post says that the change happened about 10,000 year ago. That would coincide with the end of the Younger Dryas, which was quite likely caused by the Comet crash(s) of 13,000 years ago. SC post your book.


30 posted on 11/05/2010 12:51:30 AM PDT by gleeaikin
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To: gleeaikin; ApplegateRanch; Fred Nerks
I'd love to be able to take credit for this book. :')

The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes: Flood, Fire, and Famine in the History of Civilization The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization

by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith


31 posted on 11/05/2010 6:20:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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To: SunkenCiv
Plato wrote in his dialogue, The Statesman (Politicus):

'I mean the change in the rising and the setting of the sun and the other heavenly bodies, how in those times they used to set in the quarter where they now rise, and they used to rise where they now set..'

32 posted on 11/05/2010 6:31:28 PM PDT by Fred Nerks (FAIR DINKUM!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Thanks Norm

It has some reason to it.

Water tables were very low.

The Med Sea became a fresh water reserve for a period and over filled its bank.

I will copy this piece for my archives.

Tx.

Paul


33 posted on 11/06/2010 12:24:44 AM PDT by Paul Pierett (Paul Pierett)
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To: Fred Nerks

And that’s just the ones he knew about. :’)


34 posted on 11/06/2010 8:12:25 AM PDT by SunkenCiv (The 2nd Amendment follows right behind the 1st because some people are hard of hearing.)
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