September 7, 2010. IT HASNT STOPPED, BUT HAS MEASURABLY SLOWED DUE TO THE INFLUX OF MASSIVE AMOUNTS OF FRESH WATER FROM GLACIAL MELT. WHEN THIS HAS HAPPENED BEFORE, IT USHERED IN THE GREAT ICE AGES. IVE ASKED MY SCIENTIST FRIENDS EARLIER THIS YEAR ABOUT THIS BUT THEY WERENT SURE HOW TO FORECAST THIS SLOWING/STOPPAGE IN LIGHT OF THE EXTRAORDINARY AMOUNTS OF GREENHOUSE GASES IN THE ATMOSPHERE NOW, AS COMPARED TO EARLIER ERAS ...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 places and dying in others. This ‘river’ of warm water that moves through the Atlantic Ocean is called, in various places, the South Atlantic Current, the North Brazil Current, the Caribbean Current, the Yucatan Current, the Loop Current, the Florida Current, the Gulf Stream, the North Atlantic Current (or North Atlantic Drift) and the Norway Current... Comments? Paul Beckwith, Sam Carana, Jim Reynolds Thanks to Mark Nicol-Pickles for the heads-up
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