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Cold Europe?

Filed in Notes on November 30th 05 .

“What happens is that as Arctic ice melts and Arctic rivers flow faster – trends which have both been documented – the northern oceans become less saline.

Less salinity means a lower density; the waters then cannot sink, so the conveyor weakens.

Computer models have predicted that if it turned off completely, Europe would cool by perhaps four to six degrees Celsius.” – BBC article about the Rapid project

This matters as we are looking at the Golden Nuclear Goose again…

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