Re: The weather.........

"Adam Whyte-Settlar" <grawillers@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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"Séimí mac Liam" <gwyddon@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message

The surface salinity does seem to be dropping. Anybody know haw much
drop to shut down the guld stream?

About the level it reached two years ago - according to WHOI it has
already started.



"At what threshold will the Conveyor cease?
The short answer is: We do not know. Nor have scientists determined the
relative contributions of a variety of sources that may be adding fresh
water to the North Atlantic. Among the suspects are melting glaciers or
Arctic sea ice, or increased precipitation falling directly into the ocean
or entering via the great rivers that discharge into the Arctic Ocean.
Global warming may be an exacerbating factor."

From: http://www.whoi.edu/institutes/occi/viewArticle.do?id=9986

This is a couple of years back. Do you have more current sources?

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Saint Séimí mac Liam
Carriagemaker to the court of Queen Maeve
Prophet of The Great Tagger
Canonized December '99
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