NORTH ATLANTIC GULF STREAM SALT SPRAY OCEAN CURRENT CONVEYOR BELT BOOST – GLOBALWARMING -CANADA RESEARCH
February 1st, 2006
BY MONICA DOBIE
CANADIAN researchers have suggested a novel way of preventing a feared switch off of the Gulf Stream that warms Europe and Britain, preventing us from being plunged into Siberia-style winters. The concern is linked to global warming and its potential melting of the North Pole ice cap. Without it, there could be an end of a crucial downward movement of cooling (and hence denser) warm Gulf Stream water. This forces cold Arctic water southwards along the Atlantic Ocean bed, creating a conveyor belt system pushing warmed water back northwards. To ...
Full access to this article can be arranged with permission from the client that first ordered it. Please contact us to request access. Entries are uploaded to our archive at least one year after being published by a client – free access is restricted to International News Services journalists for background research only. The article date indicates when copy was filed to a client, not when posted to this archive. Upon client requests, International News Services will remove such articles from the archive or not upload them in the first place. They are included to demonstrate the breadth of topics undertaken by the agency and also to help promote clients’ coverage.