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Old 02-May-2008, 01:20 AM
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Default Ocean Currents May Cool the Climate for a Decade

It would appear that rising atmospheric temperatures may be slowed or even stopped over the next ten years due to periodic changes in ocean circulation. As the Gulf Stream slows the flow of warm tropical waters from the equator to the North Atlantic, North America and Northern Europe will experience a slight reduction in atmospheric [...]

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The weakening of the Gulf Stream is part of a natural oscillation. We may be facing a weakened stream over the next ten years, cooling the climate, but there will also be a strengthening of ocean currents in the future. What happens when the stronger currents begin heating North Atlantic waters?
For the climate as opposed to a specified geographic area to be cooled there has to be a subtraction (or failure of the addition) of some heat. The cited variation in ocean current flow can remove heat from the northeastern region of the Atlantic, but if we are truly in a "climatological heat wave" as some seem to posit, some other region (or regions) must become proportionally more heated. The authors of the story failed to suggest where the heat removed from the northeastern Atlantic is likely to go.

As I have done in other threads on this subject, I will again try to direct the discussion to differentiate between heat transfer between different areas of the Earth and average global temperature change. So far no one has convincing data on how well we have ever measured the average global temperature nor the average global ppm of CO2. However, some are not at all bashful about predicting dire consequences using models that don't appear to have credible data bases. I suspect, but do not make the claim, that the reduction in mountain glacial and polar cap ice could be accounted for by various heat transfer mechanisms functioning on an Earth of unchanging temperature within a celsius degree or so of whatever its current value is.
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So far no one has convincing data on how well we have ever measured the average global temperature nor the average global ppm of CO2.
Actually, I've pointed out to you that since the days of the British Empire we've had a global organization taking temperature readings from around the world.
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