"The Day After Tomorrow" will take "several years."

[Clarkie1]

Changes in Gulf Stream could chill Europe
New data on global warming; thinning polar ice cap
By Marsha Walton
CNN

Tuesday, May 10, 2005 Posted: 4:19 PM EDT (2019 GMT)

(CNN) -- One outcome of global warming could be a dramatic cooling of Britain and northern Europe.

Scientists now have evidence that changes are occurring in the Gulf Stream, the warm and powerful ocean current that tempers the western European climate.

Without the influence of the Gulf Stream and its two northern branches, the North Atlantic Drift and the Canary Current, the weather in Britain could be more like that of Siberia, which shares the same latitude...

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For a dramatic climate change to take place, "A whole bunch of pieces have to fit together. Certainly this is one of them. We need to keep paying attention, and people are doing that," he said.

Woods Hole is conducting research that measures the path and temperature of some parts of the Gulf Stream.

Such a dramatic climate change would not take place in five days, but rather several years, said Joyce.

http://www.cnn.com/2005/TECH/science/05/10/gulfstream/index.html

[jojo54]

1. I don't think anyone said it would take only 5 days.

But that's not the point. The fact that the U.S. is the world's biggest greenhouse polluter and our factory's have been up and running for decades, is proof enough that we are just as much at fault as many other nations. The only difference is, the other nations are fessing up. G.W. Butthead will not.

<on edit> the subject line wasn't meant as offensive, just to disagree with Joyce.

[Clarkie1]

4. That was just a movie. n/t

[RaleighNCDUer]

7. Just a movie; overstated but based on some very solid

climatical theories.

When the tipping point is reached things won't go bad in six weeks, like the movie, but six months? One season? Springtime melt off shuts down the gulf stream, and when winter comes it doesn't go away.

You can't say it can't happen because the climatical interactions are so complex that even the best computer models have to work on only a fraction of the variables.

[BillZBubb]

2. When England freezes,

maybe the Poodle will get some help from his number one ally, W?

[tom_paine]

8. The Emperor will throw the drowning man a brick

That's what Busheviks do with their patsies when they are finished with them. Abandon or kill them.

Lee Harvey Oswald
Dick Nixon
Bill Casey
Ken Starr

and many others...

[bemildred]

3. Oh goody, I feel better now, I was almost anxious for a minute. nt

[hatrack]

5. And when Yorkshire turns to Spitzbergen, and Boston becomes Trondheim

And when Dublin is suddenly Reykjavik and when London wakes up one morning only to discover that it's suddenly Tromso, a vast and malignant whining will arise from millions around the world, a screeching pullulating yowl.

It will sound remarkably like the English-language phrase "But why didn't anybody TELL us?!?!?!?!?!"

And we will have earned every bit of our distress.

[Voltaire99]

13. Nice post. (nt)

[IChing]

6. Not true

I did a post on this from the Times, (in in the greatest section pg.15
Years yes, 5 to 10, since and serious damage.

[kaos]

9. Holy shit.

We are all gonna die?

[proud patriot]

10. Last night on the news

they said this season Jan-May that we (SF Bay area)
got more rain than Seattle ..:wow:

[markus]

11. Riddle of the Ice

I like artic exploration books, and stumbled across this one sort of by accident. There is apparently some evidence of the periodic shutdown of the Gulf Stream, with catstrophic consequences for Northern Europe's climate.

[Media_Lies_Daily]

12. And once the Gulf Stream weakens, Atlantic hurricanes will be less....

...likely to be steered out to sea when approaching the U. S. east coast because the wind steering currents aloft will also be weakened.

[fujiyama]

14. There have been some odd

climate shifts in recent years.

Aside from the melting of the polar ice caps (which is a MAJOR problem), there have also been incidents of odd migration of certain birds in the gulf of mexico region.