[Hornbeam]

I'm very much with you Adam. The switching off of the gulf stream is not being considered now but it certainly was a few years ago. I seem to remember Nigel Calder and the Weather Machine. The "The Day After Tomorrow" film showed the whole thing with a greatly accelerated time span, but still...

We should remember that Britain is on the same latitude as Labrador and that northern Britain is further north than Moscow. It is only the Gulf Stream that keeps us as warm and as wet as we are. There is every possibility that global warming will melt north polar ice and Greenland glaciers. All that fresh water will effect the salinity of the north Atlantic and that could switch off the Gulf Stream.

Why don't we hear about that? Why do we constantly hear about carbon footprints? What does that mean? Why are we only told that carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas that traps heat? Why are we not told that at the same time it partially provides cooling global shading by blocking harmful solar radiation and heat? Why do the scientists, climatologists and other prophets of doom not put all of the pieces together?

Because they are sheep who all bleat in tune.