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Gulf Stream Myth: An exaggerated role in European climate
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Posted by: DWA
03/27/2008, 22:07:16
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 Glacier melt and freshening of sea water has been presented as a threat to European climate. I like Europe and Europeans, and so am willing to worry some about their welfare. (smile). This impending threat to the Gulf Stream and European climate is something which I have accepted. I even made comments to Angus this evening about diverting the St. Lawrence river into the midwest of North America, and towards the Gulf of Mexico. This is actually feasable, since Chicago on the Great Lakes sends their sewage southwards, already, over a slight hump.

In checking river flows, I see that the St. Lawrence river has a substantial, although smaller flow than the Mississippi.

Anyway, here's a link that suggests that the Gulf Stream worries are overblown.


http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/res/div/ocp/gs/


The Gulf Stream and future climate change


"A slowdown of the Gulf Stream and ocean circulation in the future, induced by freshening of the waters caused by anthropogenic climate change (via melting glaciers and increased water vapor transport into high latitudes) or simply by warming, would thus introduce a modest cooling tendency. This would leave the temperature contrast across the Atlantic unchanged and not plunge Europe back into the ice age or anything like it. In fact the cooling tendency would probably be overwhelmed by the direct radiatively-driven warming by rising greenhouse gases. "

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http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=29542
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