Posted by Jock on March 08, 2006 at 10:45:50 from 84.68.239.14 user Jock.
In Reply to: Re: Will Coniston/Windemere freeze? posted by David Shelton on March 08, 2006 at 09:15:45:
"The Atlantic Ocean overturning current that maintains Europe's moderate climate has slowed by 30 per cent according to scientists from the National Oceanography Centre at the University of Southampton in research published today in Nature (Thursday, 1 December 2005)."
"Climate models suggest that increased levels of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will result in a slowdown of the Atlantic overturning circulation. Scientists fear that disruption to this circulation could result in a several degree drop in temperatures in as little as 20 years."