Beam me to Planet Gore !
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 ...
AC/DC currents ping!
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.)
Yes, and there will be little doubt about the freezing being man-made.
Great, now everyone knows and we’ll all pay more taxes..
That article was poorly written and lacked graphics that would have been worth 1000 words.
:-))
So, it’s now the Flug Stream into the Flug fo Ocixem?
True, twice a day.
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.
The Cycle of Cosmic Catastrophes:
Flood, Fire, and Famine
in the History of Civilization
by Richard Firestone,
Allen West, and
Simon Warwick-Smith
'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..'
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
And that’s just the ones he knew about. :’)
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