The Gulf Stream: THC or Wind Driven?

[carrieb]

"FEARS that a shutdown of ocean currents is about to plunge Europe into a mini ice age receded last week. New measurements have failed to show clear evidence that the current is weakening, and models of the North Atlantic show that a shutdown would not occur in the way oceanographers had expected. "

This a quote from a short item in this weeks New Scientist, might be worth a read.

[Dennis1234567]

A lot of the stuff in the BBC article is wrong, and flies in the face of provable facts.


Some of the evidence they missed out on was the National Science Foundation's 25 million dollar bore hole in greanland that gave the complete story of salinity of the ocean, a complete wind history through the levels of dust in the bore samples, air temp and rainfall using something i can't even say, all over the last 110,000 years. To confirm the findings the europeans did the same with another bore hole twenty miles away. Both records and reports were carbon copies of each other. The BBC missed the 20 sudden climate changes in the last 110,000 years shown in those ice cores. they missed the 10 year timescale some took to happen. There was also a study and samples of sedimenary rock taken from California, Venezuela, and Antarctica that also gave a carbon copy report of the ice cores. Funny how they missed all that.
The Science of Abrupt Climate Change : Weather Underground


The prgram and article from the BBC was better published in the Daily Sport

[Adam Cheeseman]

Don't forget that 'Britain' was allegedly south of the equator at some point back in time!

I believe that global warming and climate change is a cyclical happening and its manifestation is based on a multitude of influencing factors at each stage. The Antarctic ice-core studies show just how changeable the world's climates have been. We just possibly could be speeding up the current process of change?

If things do go pear-shaped we can always blame America again!

Cheers,

Adam

[Dorcas]

you beat me to it - was not going to mention the gas