http://blog.longnow.org/2009/06/15/1000-year-ocean-conveyor/ The Official Weblog of The Long Now Foundation and Friends Fri, 12 Mar 2010 21:55:08 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/06/15/1000-year-ocean-conveyor/comment-page-1/#comment-7279 Dan O'Donnell Sat, 20 Jun 2009 20:22:49 +0000 http://blog.longnow.org/2009/06/15/1000-year-ocean-conveyor/#comment-7279 I am not up to date on the generally recognized effects of climate change due to global warming, but some time ago one of them was that a massive influx of cold fresh water from Greenland and arctic Canada could block and stop the Gulf Stream as it moves north past Canada and turns east toward Europe. If this happens, one effect is to reduce the warming effect of the still-warm gyre waters moving south down the European Atlantic coast, but it looks like it would also stop this global current. I wonder if that has been studied? I am not up to date on the generally recognized effects of climate change due to global warming, but some time ago one of them was that a massive influx of cold fresh water from Greenland and arctic Canada could block and stop the Gulf Stream as it moves north past Canada and turns east toward Europe. If this happens, one effect is to reduce the warming effect of the still-warm gyre waters moving south down the European Atlantic coast, but it looks like it would also stop this global current. I wonder if that has been studied?

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