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?

WHOI are a bit edgy 'tis true. I was quoting from something I read a
couple of years back too.
To be serious for a minute I would agree with your source in that the
short answer is we just dont know.
But what we do know is that it *could* happen tommorrow and that if it
were to happen it *could* happen within a single year.
Ice cores and more particularly sea-bed cores from the north west
Atlantic show us it has already happened that quickly in the past.

A W-S





Do you think that a reduction in the Gulf Stream could result in a reversal
of the glacier melt and that this could in fact be a self-correcting
mechanism balancing warming due to increased solar activity? Do you think
that it's possible that all but 1/100th of a degree of the warming seen in
the last 140 years is due to increased solar activity? do you think we
should disrupt the global economy to the degree required by Kyoto to have a
hypothetical effect on that 1/110th of a degree? I agree there is cause
for concern about climate change, but could we do just a bit more research
before we resort to draconian measures which do little but transfer wealth?

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