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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."
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Did y'all ever look at how hard it would be to check new headlines posted against the last week or so's headlines and blocking duplicates to cut on the aggravation factor for the mods?
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.
Europeans may end up freezing in their own special, little H#ll....and we're supposed to be concerned about that?
Islamics protest.
There, I've said too much...
It's true! It's really, really true!
(I love this thread it has all the ingredients of a classic.)
Bye bye! We hardly knew ye!
(Do you have a rogue mod? Should we send reinforcements for you?)
Am I in before the Zot?
Ah crap, so much for the value of my beachfront cabana up north of Caribou, Maine.
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Maybe he can change his sreen name to uh, say A+ Bert or ASH or something like that. You'd think these newbies would learn.
(I had the entire paragraph written below before I went back and read the comments). Anyway, it should be noted that network news newsrooms eat this stuff up because their employers will be able to sell another round of schlock teotwawki mini-series to the easily amused public. It all feeds the upon itself.
Even the scientists and researchers who are debunking global warming are in agreement with those researchers who support global warming theories when it comes to the North Atlantic Gulf Stream shift. The Gulf Stream shift is a well known and well documented cycle that has affected human societies in western and northern Europe, Iceland Greenland and north eastern North America for millenia.
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