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Old 03-27-2008   #251 (permalink)
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Arrow Re: My belief in Global Warming is getting shaky

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Originally Posted by freeztar View Post
And the Gulf Stream has no connection to the thermo-haline conductivity...

? Huh? They are part & parcel of the same circuit. Conductivity? Huh?
Thermohaline circulation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

The chief concern is too much fresh water from melting ice in Greenland might shut down the circuit and no Gulf Stream = cold Europe. Speaking of melting ice in Greenland, let's not forget we now know it's not all from surface warming. >> Heat From Earth's Magma Contributing To Melting Of Greenland Ice

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...“The behavior of the great ice sheets is an important barometer of global climate change,” said Ralph von Frese, leader of the project and a professor of earth sciences at Ohio State University. “However, to effectively separate and quantify human impacts on climate change, we must understand the natural impacts, too.

“Crustal heat flow is still one of the unknowns -- and it's a fairly significant one, according to our preliminary results.” ...


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