NORTH ATLANTIC DRIFT
February 1st, 2004
KEITH NUTHALLBRITISH and American scientists are installing scientific instruments in the Atlantic, between the Bahamas and the Canary Islands, calibrated to detect possible changes to the North Atlantic Drift that provides one million nuclear power stations' worth of heat to Europe. This Rapid Climate Change team is checking whether global warming could actually plunge Europe into a new Ice Age by melting the North Pole. It is thought the drift operates like a conveyer belt, with light warm water moving northwards on the ocean's upper waters, then sinking ...
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