Re: The Ice Age Cometh

2004-02-04 Thread Peter Hollings
lf Of Chris Burford Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 6:40 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The Ice Age Cometh As I read the article it is broadly consistent with information available at the Science Museum in London about the Gulf Stream being dependent on a cold deep counter-current fl

Re: The Ice Age Cometh

2004-02-04 Thread Chris Burford
. Chris Burford Chris Burford :London. - Original Message - From: "Mike Ballard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2004 12:28 AM Subject: Re: [PEN-L] The Ice Age Cometh > --- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: The Ice Age Cometh

2004-02-02 Thread Mike Ballard
--- "Devine, James" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm no expert on this, but it sure seems that any > kind of global change in the average temperature > would disrupt weather patterns all over the world, > causing severe winters, droughts, etc. > I'm just an aspiring prolo-author. But the noises c

Re: The Ice Age Cometh

2004-02-02 Thread Jurriaan Bendien
if enough cold, fresh water coming > from the melting polar ice caps and the melting > glaciers of Greenland flows into the northern > Atlantic, it will shut down the Gulf Stream, which > keeps Europe and northeastern North America warm. The important words here are "if" and "enough". It really d

Re: The Ice Age Cometh

2004-02-02 Thread Devine, James
I'm no expert on this, but it sure seems that any kind of global change in the average temperature would disrupt weather patterns all over the world, causing severe winters, droughts, etc. Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine > http://www.

The Ice Age Cometh

2004-02-02 Thread Mike Ballard
http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=17711 By Thom Hartmann, Thomhartmann.com February 1, 2004 While global warming is being officially ignored by the political arm of the Bush administration, and Al Gore's recent conference on the topic during one of the coldest days of recent years pr