Scientists Say Slower Atlantic Currents Could Mean a Colder Europe
Global warming scientists covering up their butts.
More proof that scientists don’t have a firm grasp on global weather. Just last year they were saying that global warming was going to shut down the Atlantic conveyor. Now they say global warming might have a salutory effect on it.
Is that Al Gore I see on the bottom?
Does anyone remember the POS television special about 10-15 years ago that seriously stated that the conveyor would stop completely by 2010 or so if global warming weren’t immediately stopped?
If anyone remembers, I need the name.
This can’t be correct; the sea level is rising, more freshwater is entering the oceans from all the melting glaciers and according the the global warming theory the oceans become less salty. Global Warming theory is unquestionable therefore this data must be wrong.
Climate change is 100 per cent natural 100 per cent of the time.We don't know much about the Atlantic Ocean currentsWe reported on the first results from a long-term study two years ago. This study used a string of buoys running along a constant meridian to send back a continuous stream of depth-dependent flow rates. The results didn't look good -- the initial findings indicated a 30 percent slow down over 12 years. As noted by the researchers at the time, the data was noisy and that the slow down they measured could all be part of the current's internal variability.
by Chris Lee
August 16, 2007
This warning was borne out by follow up results that used new data from the buoy line and combined it with pre-existing data from other sources to get a picture of how the current... err... ebbed and flowed. Their conclusion was that all the data taken thus far fits within the bounds of natural variation.
Nevertheless, the data set is still quite sparse but the buoys are still out there. Now, in a paper to be published in Science, the researchers have analyzed the 2004-2005 data set to estimate how long it will take to obtain enough data to be sure that the internal variability of the ocean current is properly bracketed. Their answer? Ten years.