Thanks for the comments everyone! Sorry for the late response, as its been a rather hectic week.
The article is for the Yale Climate Media Forum, a new online portal designed to help improve the quality of climate science reporting in the popular press. The website just launched earlier today, and you can find it here: http://www.yaleclimatemediaforum.org/ WMC: I noticed that the THC discussion seems to involve a number of "hideously complex oceanographic reasons". I tried to simplify as much as possible while still getting the core concepts correct, and I'm sure the editor will simplify it even more. That said, I'll make sure to add more qualifiers to possible causes of paleo THC shutdowns and the ongoing debate over what exact role the THC plays in heating Northern Europe. I just finished another short article on something near and dear to your heart: the 70's global cooling myth. It should be online some time in the next few weeks. MT: See the link above for the venue. Also, I mention Broecker in the second to last paragraph, borrowing the quote he gave in the Nature article that "the notion that [a modern THC shutdown] may trigger a mini ice age is a myth." Fergus: I'll correct the range of modeled slowdowns. Am I correct in saying that no model shows a complete shutdown in this century, or should I qualify that a bit (e.g. virtually no). Also, whats a good source for potential non-Eurocentric impacts of a slowdown? Adam: I noticed the controversy over that in the literature. However, I got the impression that the mainstream view currently is that the THC -does- play a large role in N European climates. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
