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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