"Roger Long" wrote in message
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"Dennis Pogson" wrote


I have noticed that "global warming" as a phrase is no longer used here n
the UK. They now refer to it as "climate change". Covers a multitude of
sins!

And for very good reason. I encounter a lot of physical oceanographers in
my business. They say that the Gulf Stream is driven by dense water in
the arctic sinking, running along the bottom and rising in the tropics
pushing the warm water north. Fresh water is less dense. Is the ice
melts, there is less to drive the stream and some think it could shut down
over a period of time measured in just a few years or even months. There
is evidence of this happening in the past. The effect would be to move
Europe, and particularly England, hundreds of miles north climate wise.
Think of a nation needing to adapt to such a change so quickly. There is
a reason why the UK is way out ahead of the US on this issue.

Token on topic comment: It will also take longer for transatlantic sailors
to get to England but may be a bit easier cruising to Bermuda.

It is also believed by some climatologists that ice ages are actually
global warming events. The average temperature is higher but the
distribution more extreme.

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Roger Long



Roger, hasn't all this happened before? Didn't England go through a period
refered to as the little ice age?
And what about the Norsemen and Iceland and "Greenland"?

I am totally against polution, and will support those against that .. but
this global warming thing is
political.

Let's face it .. :: birth control? Like, less people .. that would be a
good start but oh nooooo,, the
pols don't want that.