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Only 6 seasons left until the Ice Age...
so hurry up and make those thermal flight records! 8^)
http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?St...7-041447-2345r |
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Only 6 seasons left until the Ice Age...
New math: 2035 - 2006 = 6!
Global warming, global cooling, global chernobal, I'm going flying. ~ted/2NO |
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Only 6 seasons left until the Ice Age...
Kemp wrote:
so hurry up and make those thermal flight records! 8^) http://upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?St...7-041447-2345r Yeah, but think of the wave flights! Shawn |
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Only 6 seasons left until the Ice Age...
5Z wrote:
wrote: New math: 2035 - 2006 = 6! I think he meant 60 more seasons. Cooling should occur in the 2060+ timeframe. Not necessarily. One of the more doom and gloom climate change scenarios has fresh water from greenhouse warming induced melting of part of the Greenland icecap, shutting down the Deep Atlantic Conveyor. This circulation pattern is the source of energy driving much of the world's ocean circulation including the Gulf Stream. Water in the North Atlantic tends to be cold and salty (dense), sinks to the ocean bottom near Iceland (IIRC) and flows south driving deep ocean currents. Some of this water eventually rises near the equator picking up heat and returning north on the surface. Melt water from the Greenland fresh-water ice is of much lower density and could hypothetically override the denser Gulf Stream water. This *could* mess up the cycle. Heat flow to high latitudes decreases, making those areas colder, while lower latitudes become warmer since the heat isn't carried away. Good or bad, if or when, can't be called by any respectable climatologist at this time. Makes for bad Hollywood though. :-) http://calspace.ucsd.edu/virtualmuse...ge1/10_5.shtml http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/photogallery Shawn |
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Only 6 seasons left until the Ice Age...
According to the article the cooling STARTS in 6 to 7 years, with the
COLDEST period around 2035. So I picked six years as my headline number. Geez, we all need to get out flying some more. Besides, what's a few years on the climate scale......... |
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Only 6 seasons left until the Ice Age...
Shawn wrote:
5Z wrote: wrote: New math: 2035 - 2006 = 6! I think he meant 60 more seasons. Cooling should occur in the 2060+ timeframe. Not necessarily. One of the more doom and gloom climate change scenarios has fresh water from greenhouse warming induced melting of part of the Greenland icecap, shutting down the Deep Atlantic Conveyor. This circulation pattern is the source of energy driving much of the world's ocean circulation including the Gulf Stream. Water in the North Atlantic tends to be cold and salty (dense), sinks to the ocean bottom near Iceland (IIRC) and flows south driving deep ocean currents. Some of this water eventually rises near the equator picking up heat and returning north on the surface. Melt water from the Greenland fresh-water ice is of much lower density and could hypothetically override the denser Gulf Stream water. This *could* mess up the cycle. Heat flow to high latitudes decreases, making those areas colder, while lower latitudes become warmer since the heat isn't carried away. Good or bad, if or when, can't be called by any respectable climatologist at this time. Makes for bad Hollywood though. :-) http://calspace.ucsd.edu/virtualmuse...ge1/10_5.shtml http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/photogallery Shawn A recent measurement reported the eastern branch of the Gulf Stream was already 30% of the way to being shut down. -- martin@ | Martin Gregorie gregorie. | org | Zappa fan & glider pilot |
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Only 6 seasons left until the Ice Age...
Martin Gregorie wrote: Shawn wrote: 5Z wrote: wrote: New math: 2035 - 2006 = 6! I think he meant 60 more seasons. Cooling should occur in the 2060+ timeframe. Not necessarily. One of the more doom and gloom climate change scenarios has fresh water from greenhouse warming induced melting of part of the Greenland icecap, shutting down the Deep Atlantic Conveyor. This circulation pattern is the source of energy driving much of the world's ocean circulation including the Gulf Stream. Water in the North Atlantic tends to be cold and salty (dense), sinks to the ocean bottom near Iceland (IIRC) and flows south driving deep ocean currents. Some of this water eventually rises near the equator picking up heat and returning north on the surface. Melt water from the Greenland fresh-water ice is of much lower density and could hypothetically override the denser Gulf Stream water. This *could* mess up the cycle. Heat flow to high latitudes decreases, making those areas colder, while lower latitudes become warmer since the heat isn't carried away. Good or bad, if or when, can't be called by any respectable climatologist at this time. Makes for bad Hollywood though. :-) http://calspace.ucsd.edu/virtualmuse...ge1/10_5.shtml http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319262/photogallery Shawn A recent measurement reported the eastern branch of the Gulf Stream was already 30% of the way to being shut down. Yes, some research do show that. Other researchers have not come to that conclusion and I have also heard that the flow of the Gulf stream between Iceland and Scotland is on the increase. |
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