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Topic started on 6-9-2010 @ 09:00 AM by MrOrange82

Life on this Earth Just Changed


europebusines.blogspot.com
The latest satellite data establishes that the North Atlantic Current (also called the North Atlantic Drift) no longer exists and along with it the Norway Current. These two warm water currents are actually part of the same system that has several names depending on where in the Atlantic Ocean it is. The entire system is a key part of the planet's heat regulatory system; it is what keeps Ireland and the United Kingdom mostly ice free and the Scandinavia countries from being too cold; it is what keeps the entire world from another Ice Age. This Thermohaline Circulation System is now dead in pl
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reply posted on 6-9-2010 @ 09:09 AM by MrOrange82
Early Snow in Russia
Russia has seen it’s first snow accumulation of the season. According to Rutgers Global Snow Lab, Russia doesn’t normally receive snow until the second week in September. More is forecast for the next week, as well as in Norway and Sweden. Southeast Greenland is expecting heavy snow. Much of The UK and Ireland are expecting cold weather during the next week, as is Moscow. Temperatures on the Greenland ice sheet will be dipping down to near -25C. Nice August weather!

Never before so much rain in Germany
31 Aug 10 – Germany received more rain in August than in any August since records began in 1881, the German Weather Service (DWD) announced Monday. “We have measured more than double the amount of rain as the long-term average for August,” said DWD spokesman Uwe Kirsche. About 157 litres per square metre had fallen on average across the nation, a new record. The previous record, set in August 1960, brought “only” 134 liter / sq m. That compares with the average over many years of just 77 litres / m.

Coldest South Australia August in 35 years
ADELAIDE has recorded its coldest August in more than 35 years. The city had an average temperature of 14.8C for the last month of winter. That compared with a usual average of 16.6C for August. Bureau of Meteorology senior forecaster Allan Beattie said the previous record for a cold August was in 1970 when the average temperature was 14.4C. But the coldest August was in 1951 when the average temperature was 14.1C. Adelaide’s winter this year also had a below-average temperature of 15.5C, compared with the usual average of 16C.

Snow in the Alps a month earlier than normal
30 Aug 10 – Snow in Voralberg, a month earlier than “normal”. Many farmers still had their cattle in the fields! Global warming seems far removed from these regions. It’s in Dutch, but you can use an online translator to get the gist of it. click here!

Half a meter of snow in Norway
I live in Norway. Here is what was in the news today! The winter just arrived, with a half a meter of snow. It snowed several places in the mountains in eastern Norway, although it is still only August. “This was totally unexpected,” says Anne Wangen to Nettavisen.
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“There have been large amounts of snow, between 40 and 50 centimeters,” says Wangen. It is many years since there has been snow so early in Juvasshytta, located 1840 meters above sea level.
“It has happened that there has been so much snow in August, but it is many years since the last time. It is not normal anyway, and there was no indication of a time,” says Wangen.


reply posted on 6-9-2010 @ 09:29 AM by Silcone Synapse
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Scientists were are saying that the North atlantic drift is "slowing"rather than "has stopped" back in 1999:

Dr Turrell found that in each of the past two decades the salinity of the deep water flowing south has dropped by 0.01g of salt per kg of seawater. So its density has probably also decreased.
"This is the largest change we have seen in the outflow in the last 100 years," says Dr Turrell.
"It is consistent with models showing the stopping of the pump and the conveyor belt."
This contrasts with the situation in the 1950s when the salinity of the outflow was so stable it was used to calibrate equipment.


news.bbc.co.uk...

I hope the OP link is speculation rather than fact,and I can't seem to find anywhere else who says the drift has stopped-just sites which talk of "fluctuating salinity" over the years.

If the drift stopped-wouldn't that shut down the gulf steam as well,as they are part of the same "machine?"

Weren't the Russian heatwave and Pakistan floods attributed to the Gulf steam weakening/slowing this summer?

So maybe we are seeing the beginning of a serious situation.


reply posted on 6-9-2010 @ 09:35 AM by MrOrange82
Originally posted by Silcone Synapse
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Scientists were are saying that the North atlantic drift is "slowing"rather than "has stopped" back in 1999:

Dr Turrell found that in each of the past two decades the salinity of the deep water flowing south has dropped by 0.01g of salt per kg of seawater. So its density has probably also decreased.
"This is the largest change we have seen in the outflow in the last 100 years," says Dr Turrell.
"It is consistent with models showing the stopping of the pump and the conveyor belt."
This contrasts with the situation in the 1950s when the salinity of the outflow was so stable it was used to calibrate equipment.


news.bbc.co.uk...

I hope the OP link is speculation rather than fact,and I can't seem to find anywhere else who says the drift has stopped-just sites which talk of "fluctuating salinity" over the years.

If the drift stopped-wouldn't that shut down the gulf steam as well,as they are part of the same "machine?"

Weren't the Russian heatwave and Pakistan floods attributed to the Gulf steam weakening/slowing this summer?

So maybe we are seeing the beginning of a serious situation.



I still believe that someone will post a comment that takes away our concern.
If not.
What exactly does this mean for me as a person? What are the effects on my daily life?



reply posted on 6-9-2010 @ 09:56 AM by wardk28
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sorry, suppose to be none of us would be typing right now cause we would not be alive right now.


reply posted on 6-9-2010 @ 10:05 AM by MrOrange82
Originally posted by wardk28
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sorry, suppose to be none of us would be typing right now cause we would not be alive right now.


I am glad that i asked
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