Posted on 11/30/2005 4:39:00 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Edited on 11/30/2005 5:06:40 PM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
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The ocean current that gives western Europe its relatively balmy climate is stuttering, raising fears that it might fail entirely and plunge the continent into a mini ice age.
The dramatic finding comes from a study of ocean circulation in the North Atlantic, which found a 30% reduction in the warm currents that carry water north from the Gulf Stream.
The slow-down, which has long been predicted as a possible consequence of global warming, will give renewed urgency to intergovernmental talks in Montreal, Canada, this week on a successor to the Kyoto Protocol.
Harry Bryden at the Southampton Oceanography Centre in the UK, whose group carried out the analysis, says he is not yet sure if the change is temporary or signals a long-term trend. "We don’t want to say the circulation will shut down," he told New Scientist. "But we are nervous about our findings. They have come as quite a surprise."
I thought global warming was going to melt the icecaps and flood out the lowlands. Guess that wasn't bad enough to scare us all into trading in our oil guzzlers, so now it's going to cause a mini-ice age (which I'm guessing would add ice to the icecaps) and then later melt those same icecaps and flood us all. We're doomed either way.
Dang it. What am I going to do with all that suntan lotion now?
The worse the climate gets - or so the media proclaims -
the more control politicians will try to get over your lives. George Orwell couldn't have thought up a more devious scenerio.
Feh. Now it's getting colder? These scientists flip-flop more than John Kerry.
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I'm so confused.
Okay, here's the plan... our drinking water today is simply dinosaur pee, right?
So... what we need-- dinosaurs. Crisis averted.
Remember in the early 70's, we were being led to belive in global cooling. Remember the Time Mag cover with the deep blue picture of the Earth?
Nobody bought that crap, so they figured they'd try to scare us with global warming, instead.
Even MSM conspiracies are cyclical......
Doomed. We're dooomed, I tell ya...
Already posted:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1531462/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1531562/posts
See? Nobody ever wanted to listen to me, but I told them: "Repent before Global Cooling destroys us all!"
So the headline should be: "Global Warming To Cause Ice Age"...only to a liberal would this make sense!
Me too. I was getting warmer before I cooled off.
Blaziing hot today, freezing cold tomorrow. Typical south Texas weather forecast. ;)
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It's not a double post, it's just a stutter. :)
It's the White Witch wot done it, plunging Narn...er...Europe into a 100 year winter, and without Christmas too. Tsk, tsk.
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