... one of the headlines on the BBC is
Gulf Stream 'is not slowing down'
The Gulf Stream does not appear to be slowing down, say US scientists who have used satellites to monitor tell-tale changes in the height of the sea. Confirming work by other scientists using different methodologies, they found dramatic short-term variability but no longer-term trend.
A slow-down - dramatised in the movie The Day After Tomorrow - is projected by some models of climate change. The research is published in the journal Geophysical Research Letters...
I had, until a couple of years ago, assumed that this whole 'Global Warming' theory was true (whether man-made or not). This didn't worry me too much (it saved us all the hassle of mowing our lawns in summer, for example), what worried me more was the possibility of Global Cooling, so the Warmenists invented a theory that MMGW would lead to a new Ice Age, in support of which they argued that MMGW would somehow turn off the Gulf Stream.
Only it now turns out that it hasn't happened so far, so that's another thing less for me to worry about.
Meh
2 hours ago
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When London was plagued by smog due to burning of coal, the problem was addressed because cause and effect were measurable. So I say forget all this nonsense about global warming. If it is a fact then certain changes will occur and when they occur measured and tackled. Second guessing is not the way forward, addressing problems as they arise will be more effective and cost beneficial.
Antisthenes,
That's why I'm convinced that the scientists/politicians are in such a hurry to implement major changes and why climategate may have blown the whole thing out of the water. 5-10 years from now, we'll really know what's happening with the climate. We'll have had 20 years to see what the actual results vs predictions of the model worked out like.
I'm not a climate scientist, but my guess is that even if there's warming, the rate is going to be a lot lower than the predictions for that period.
Gulf Stream 'is not slowing down'
I beg to differ
Here's photographic proof not only of a completely stalled Gulf Stream but also the disastrous consequences of it slowing suddenly.
@John
I properly 'LOL'ed at that - cheers!
JP, that's awful, it's like something out of The Day After Tomorrow.
JP, I am a bit slow on the uptake, ok very. However they do say he who laughs last laughs longest. Not a laughing matter you may say, in which case oops.
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