File spoon-archives/anarchy-list.archive/anarchy-list_2003/anarchy-list.0302, message 433


From: "Old Goat" <olgoat-AT-nebi.com>
Subject: Jet Stream (was Re: Gulf Stream)
Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2003 23:14:03 -0600


There is a rumour being circulated in scientific circles that the
Jet Stream is also slowing down, dangerously so.  In fact, if it
loses another 25 knots in average speed it will needs be renamed
the Propeller Stream.  The result will be dangerous -- perhaps
even deadly -- global flatulence.

Such will, however, solve another problem as there will develop
as a result an abundance of alternative fuel.

old fahrt goat

----- Original Message -----
From: "Dave Coull" <coull2-AT-btinternet.com>
Subject: RE: Gulf Stream


>
> Jack wrote
>
>
> > Dave, do you have any references on this? This has always
been
> > a private fear of mine, the gulf stream being the rather puny
thing
> > it is (on a global scale), but I've never managed to find any
real
> > meteorologists who had done research into it.
>
>
> Sorry, Jack, no, I can't provide references. The stuff about
measuring
> the flow of the Gulf Stream over a long period of time is
somewhere
> in my notes from my environmental science course of 1994-1996.
> Those notes are around here somewhere in all of the chaos!
> I would have to go back and ask some of my tutors about this.
> Alison Reeves was one of my tutors and she was an ocean
scientist
> who did actually sail the ocean before becoming a university
lecturer
> and I think she actually worked on this herself for a time. I
could
> contact her to ask for more information on this. My statement
that
> scientists have recently confirmed that the Gulf Stream is
slowing
> down is based on an article I read in one of the newspapers I
get,
> probably the Observer or the Guardian but it might have been
the Herald.
> No, I didn't keep the article. The reason that meltwater messes
with
> the convection process is that meltwater is  _fresh_  water, or
at least
> fresh-ish, whereas by the time the Gulf Stream reaches the
North Atlantic
> it is very salty and so very dense. However, although I can't
provide
> any references, I did a quick google search and came up with
the following,
> which is from a USA government site and probably on the
cautious side
> where effects of global warming is concerned.
>




   

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