On 09/10/2007, Michael Tobis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Exact quote would be good, but there's a vast difference already
> between "THC shutdown" and "Gulf Stream shutdown".
There is to you. There isn't to Joe Public.
OK, so the text is mostly fairly careful to avoid saying THC and
mostly avoids saying gulf stream shutdown, though at one point he does
slip up:
"around 10,000 years ago something happened that the scientists re
worried could happen again. When the last glacial ice sheet in n
america melted it formed a giant pool of fresh water... Then one day
the ice dam broke... The gulf stream virtually stopped. So western
europe no longer received all of that heat from the evaporating gulf
stream. Consequently europe wsent back into an ince age for another
900-1000 years. and the transition happened fairly quickly. Some
scientists are now seriously worried about the possibility of the
phenomen recurring... Curry: "the possibility of such extreme events
precludes ruling out that disruption of the north atlantic ocean
conveyor in the 21st century could occur as a result of GH warming"."
So, yes, he is raising the possibility of the gulf stream stopping.
Fairly clearly its just a stupid error, and he means THC stopping.
-W.
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