Originally posted by DA Morgan:
... And most importantly the salinity of the mid-Atlantic conveyor.
They can dissemble all they want. But when the salinity drops to a low enough level the conveyor stops and the only thing we will here from them is whining about why no one told them earlier.
see, this right here is the total problem.
glacers expand and contract all the time. in years hot years they contract, and since this study was done during the second hottest year in recent years, and the hottest year they had the sats working, its only expected for them to contract some what. these articles dont give the any data that allows you to see if its a general pattern or a specific one.
worse that that, is the to unsubstanciated theory of the "mid-Atlantic conveyor disruption". There is only evidence that this has happen once and that was caused by an extreamly large amount of fresh water bursting through ice dams in north america. the melting of the ice glacers, if it is happening, would not put that much fresh water in the mid-Atlantic conveyor belt at one time. it would have time to react much as it has for thousands of years.
So the belt changes its northern most part a few miles or even a few dozen, this would not have that great an effect. a few areas, might get a little colder for a few years until the belt recorrected itself. maybe a few areas would get warmer, maybe a few areas dryer and another a little wetter. it would only be a short term change, and would quickly fix itself.
yet listen to global warming alarmist and they will tell you that it will kill off every human on the face of the earth.
of course there are only about 50 zillion things that can kill off every human on the face of the earth, yet we still keep going.
