Southern Ocean current faces slowdown threat (Moves heat around world, Atlantic Conveyer slowing too

[Shallah Kali]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070322/sc_nm/climate_ocean_dc_1

Melting ice-sheets and glaciers in Antarctica are releasing fresh water, interfering with the formation of dense "bottom water," which sinks 4-5 kilometers to the ocean floor and helps drive the world's ocean circulation system.

A slowdown in the system known as "overturning circulation" would affect the way the ocean, which absorbs 85 percent of atmospheric heat, carries heat around the globe.

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For the so-called Atlantic Conveyor, the surface warm water current meets the Greenland ice sheet then cools and sinks, heading south again and driving the conveyor belt process.

But researchers fear increased melting of the Greenland ice sheet risks disrupting the conveyor. If it stops, temperatures in northern Europe would plunge.

Around the time the bush administration was working up to invade Iraq either the discovery channel or TLC had a documenatry on about the last Ice Age. It said scientists believed it was triggered by the ice caps melting which slowed, then stopped, the ocean convection currents which stopped moving heat around the world. I though so THAT is why they REALLY want Iraq so they won't freeze with the rest of humanity. anyhow the thought scared the ocean currents stopping scared me then. it freezes me to my marrow now.

[sam sarrha]

1. i believe on 1/10/90 or 91 poppy issued an EO for the relocation of regional populations.. a bunch

EO's were issued along with the one that allowed the Gov to commandeer planes for use in emergencies, most of them described the worse case Fascist New World Order. most of them i believe were in the 11,000 area

[sam sarrha]

2. the last Ice Age had Ice 9 miles thick on poles, takes 5 lbs of red hot cast iron to vaporize 1lb

of water.. so there was some heat go'n on in the equatorial and tropical areas

[Shallah Kali]

3. re: equatroial heat - so this is why I read rumors that W bought land in S. America

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[sam sarrha]

4. he has squatted on the largest Aquifer in the region