jpoyner
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Well the Beeb gave it about 30 seconds sandwiched in somewhere on tonight's news but apparently results just published are showing that the gulf stream IS cooling (as predicted), due to extra cold water from melting polar ice. Sad they gave so little time to possibly the first sign of one of the most dramatic climatic changes to hit the UK. Forget warming in the short term here, if the gulf stream switches off it's going to get pretty damn cold!
"Computer models have predicted that if it turned off completely, Europe would cool by perhaps four to six degrees Celsius.
Commenting in Nature, Detlef Quadfasel from the University of Hamburg writes that the NOC experiments provide "...the first observational evidence that such a decrease of the oceanic overturning circulation is well underway."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4485840.stm
JP.
"Computer models have predicted that if it turned off completely, Europe would cool by perhaps four to six degrees Celsius.
Commenting in Nature, Detlef Quadfasel from the University of Hamburg writes that the NOC experiments provide "...the first observational evidence that such a decrease of the oceanic overturning circulation is well underway."
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4485840.stm
JP.
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