[Lowfer] Global cooling or warming???

[Zack Widup]

You can Google it for more info but it is an ocean circulation pattern of
warm water that keeps western Europe and to some extent eastern USA warmer
in the winter.

The Great Conveyor Belt can suddenly shut off with no prediction (in fact,
it wasn't even known about 20 years ago) and cause horrible winters in those
areas. Supposedly the Great Conveyor Belt shut down in the early 1300's,
causing the Little Ice Age of that century. It's been speculated that
"global warming" can cause the Great Conveyor Belt to turn off again,
plunging western Europe and possibly eastern USA into another Little Ice
Age.

This is a good article on the whole thing:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/05mar_arctic.htm

Brrr ...

73, Zack W9SZ


On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 9:02 AM, Mike.WE0H <we0h at gmx.com> wrote:

> What's that thing Zack???
>
> Maybe by the time Arizona runs low on water, the current crop of old
> timers/snowbirds will be 6' under and the water demand may be down? Just
> have to shut off the borders now, to keep newbies from migrating down
> there.
>
> Mike
> WE0H
>
>
>
>
> Zack W wrote:
> > How does the Great Conveyor Belt fit into this?
> >
> > 73, Zack W9SZ
>
>
> >
> > On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 7:36 AM, Chris T wrote:
> >
> >>> Funny, what happened to the so called global warming?
> >>>
> >>    It's progressing according to the model predictions.  As the northern
> >> latitude ice melts, it will cool the atmosphere immediately above it.
>  This
> >> will cause noticeable cooling and violent storms for 10-20 years.  After
> the
> >> bulk of the ice has melted, the atmospheric cooling will subside and the
> >> subsequent warming will be fairly rapid.
> >>
> >>    One noticeable feature so far has been the southward shift of the jet
> >> stream, which is primarily due to the colder atmosphere in the northern
> >> latitudes.  This resulted in virtually no hurricane season this last
> year
> >> due to shearing, and it is continuing in the form of unusually cold
> winter
> >> conditions.
> >>
> >>    Another feature is the significant drying of the southwest and other
> >> regions.  The pool level of Lake Mead is presently 45 feet above the
> point
> >> where they will have to turn off the dynamos due to lack of sufficient
> >> head.
> >> And here in Arizona, we're drawing on ground water, some of which is
> over
> >> 10,000 years old by way of oxygen isotope analysis.  When the CAP
> (Central
> >> Arizona Project) canal is shut off due to insufficient water in the
> >> Colorado
> >> River, we'll only be able to support 4.3 million people, and we're
> already
> >> over 6 million.  And that's if all other water resources are inumpaired.
> >> When that happens and the ground water is depleted, you'll see more than
> >> just simple water use restrictions out here.  They're already admitting
> >> that
> >> turning agricultural land into subdivisions was a big mistake.
> >>
> >> Chris Trask
> >> N7ZWY
> >> WDX3HLB
> >> Senior Member IEEE
> >> http://www.home.earthlink.net/~christrask/<http://www.home.earthlink.net/%7Echristrask/>
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