Global warming.........

[Casper]

This is a satellite image of Great Britain. They're currently under the deepest freeze in recorded history. Kinda cool. The Gulf Stream is what brings warm air to England. Right now, it isn't doing it. I definitely think we're seeing weather pattern changes, but I highly doubt this is global warming.

[redkow97]

Al Gore needs to shovel my driveway before I watch another one of his bs PowerPoint presentations...

[jblosser]

All employees:

Since we see it cooling where we wanted to see warming (to support our F.U.D. theory), from now on it will be called

"climate change".

Please use the new term in all future communication.

Thanks,

Forrest Gore

V.P., United States, retired

[RFM]

The theory postulates that the warming of the poles has melted enough ice to cause a disruption in the disruption of the gulf stream. This is caused by an influx of colder, unsalinated water entering into the flow of a warm salinated current. The Global Warming model predicts cooler temperatures in the northern regions of the US, and England and Northern Europe will get considerably colder- as the warm water keep the temperatures regulated.

Who cares who believes what. Morons will be morons, from whichever side you look at it.

[RSVDon]

This reminds me of that one movie, The Day After Tomorrow.

[jporter12]

I WANT MY GLOBAL WARMING BACK!

I'm not liking the snow!

For every scientist that touts global warming, there's at least a couple calling on them, but they're not covered by the mainstream media....Or so I've heard.

[smashweights]

Key West just hit a 131-year low temp of 47 degrees.

[ReconRat]

The theory postulates that the warming of the poles has melted enough ice to cause a disruption in the disruption of the gulf stream. This is caused by an influx of colder, unsalinated water entering into the flow of a warm salinated current. The Global Warming model predicts cooler temperatures in the northern regions of the US, and England and Northern Europe will get considerably colder- as the warm water keep the temperatures regulated.

Who cares who believes what. Morons will be morons, from whichever side you look at it.

Correct. Did you know that the gulf stream is part of a single continuous loop of current that goes around the world through all the oceans?

A very large lake in Canada burst loose about 12,800 years ago, and disrupted that loop of current. A nasty ice age for Europe was the result.

[jporter12]

Correct. Did you know that the gulf stream is part of a single continuous loop of current that goes around the world through all the oceans?

A very large lake in Canada burst loose about 12,800 years ago, and disrupted that loop of current. A nasty ice age for Europe was the result.

Very interesting....

[ReconRat]

Very interesting....

...googling gulf stream disruption... there was another one about 8000 years ago, and Europe got a bit chilly for about a hundred years. It would make it colder here too, but not by much, and mostly up in New England area.

There isn't much that can stop that much water. Mostly other water, go figure. And a multitude of theories abound about the gulf stream and/or ocean conveyor stream. Same as theories of global warming and Arctic melting. One interesting theory is that the warm water has shifted up into the Arctic, causing what we see now. Melting the Arctic and snowing in Britain. Especially the warming of Greenland, which used to be green way back when anyway.

edit: btw, now is the right time to buy stock in British companies that make snow shovels...

Edited January 9, 2010 by ReconRat

[jporter12]

edit: btw, now is the right time to buy stock in British companies that make snow shovels...

Good one!

Edit: they probably get them from China, like we do here....

[ReconRat]

Being obsessive, I looked up the current flow charts and noticed, that the Southern Antarctic currents circle the earth at low latitudes without interruption. A big circle of cold water. This does not exist in the Northern hemisphere with the ice and Greenland in the way. The ice will be gone soon, but not Greenland. So a Northern Arctic cold current will develop, and try to circle the globe. What it does when it hits Greenland, I don't know. Other than it will try to get around it, either above or below or both. The warm currents will be drawn toward it, so I'm guessing it will flow around the Southern end of Greenland. This could pull a warm mix over the top of Siberia and Canada toward the East. Siberia and Canada would get warmer. Everything else would get even warmer than that. That's what lower Africa and South America have (and Australia). Warm.

btw: with the ice vanishing in Greenland, it is a geologist's dream. Same in Canada. They're setting up exploration and mining operations as fast as they can. But there are not enough people in Greenland with mining, processing or manufacturing experience. They have to bring them in from other countries. Sort of a modern day gold rush.