BrendanS
Well-Known Member
Simon,
But this isn't 'Global Warming' - not sure why everyone keeps trying to introduce it into the equation. It's a straightforward physical process. Mix fresh water into the area where the heavily saline Gulf Stream normally sinks, and upset the whole process. Gulf Stream diminishes or stops. Northern Europe no longer has benefit of Gulf Stream, and gets cold.
Many Oceanographers use the term Gulf Stream to include the whole system including the North Atlantic Drift, so you're are being a little picky. People are taught in school that it's the Gulf Stream, so why confuse them unnecessarily.
As to scientific evidence, there is a huge amount of it, but you can hardly expect a programme of under one hour to go into that level of detail. It's such a well know theory it's even mentioned in encyclopedias. The use of foraminifera in mud cores showing sea temperature is well documented and is considered an accurate measure. Likewise measurement of heavy water in ice cores is an established and accurate measurement. To go into further detail was only going to confuse laypeople with no scientific training. The source of the desalination is also a red herring - it doesn't matter where it comes from. It's the fact that it is there which causes the saline pump to stop.
As to your points 1 to 3, they relate to global warming which I believe is a total red herring in the gulf stream salinity issue
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But this isn't 'Global Warming' - not sure why everyone keeps trying to introduce it into the equation. It's a straightforward physical process. Mix fresh water into the area where the heavily saline Gulf Stream normally sinks, and upset the whole process. Gulf Stream diminishes or stops. Northern Europe no longer has benefit of Gulf Stream, and gets cold.
Many Oceanographers use the term Gulf Stream to include the whole system including the North Atlantic Drift, so you're are being a little picky. People are taught in school that it's the Gulf Stream, so why confuse them unnecessarily.
As to scientific evidence, there is a huge amount of it, but you can hardly expect a programme of under one hour to go into that level of detail. It's such a well know theory it's even mentioned in encyclopedias. The use of foraminifera in mud cores showing sea temperature is well documented and is considered an accurate measure. Likewise measurement of heavy water in ice cores is an established and accurate measurement. To go into further detail was only going to confuse laypeople with no scientific training. The source of the desalination is also a red herring - it doesn't matter where it comes from. It's the fact that it is there which causes the saline pump to stop.
As to your points 1 to 3, they relate to global warming which I believe is a total red herring in the gulf stream salinity issue
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