Notes from the current issue of Sea Technologty magazine:

1. UK National OCeanographic Center, SOuthhampton reports findings indicating that the Atlantic "overturning" current, responsible for the moderate climate of Europe, has slowed by 30% comparing records as far back as 1957; a rapid decline began in 2004.

2. The top three meters of permafrodt across the Northern Hemisphere coul dbe 50% gone by 2050 and 100% melted by 21000, according to simulations from the National Center for Atmospheric Research.

3. According to Rutgers professor Kenneth G. Miller, global ocean levels are rising at twice the rate they did 150 years ago -- two mm. per year versus several thousands of years of one mm./yr. The most dramatic change has been since the 19th century.

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