The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #118369 Message #2555904
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
03-Feb-09 - 04:30 AM
Thread Name: BS: Coping With Snow In Britain (revisited)
Subject: RE: Coping with snow in Britain
Where's global warming when you need it?
One of the most alarming aspects of global warming is the predicted failure of the Gulf Stream, which depends on a certain salinity to keep it moving, but this salinity is being diluted by fresh melt water from the Arctic which could, according to some scientists, bring it to a standstill. In such an eventuality, at these latitudes, Britain becomes a frozen tundra - the nothingness, the whiteness, the endlessness stretching on beyond the human imagination; desolation of the soul!