It's completely wrong.
The Gulf Stream cannot shut down as long as
1) the sun remains on
2) the ocean surface remains liquid
3) the earth keeps spinning
and
4) the continents stay roughly where they have been for the last
300,000,000 years.
(If I've left anything out, it is even less likely.)
I'd say this is well outside the realm of anthropogenic climate change.
I've never read any of Flannery's stuff. Based on this outburst I
couldn't recommend it.
mt
On 10/29/07, Tom Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> What do you make of this quote?:
>
> "TIM FLANNERY: Well, look, those scenarios really deal with those big
> positive feedback loops, you know. The first is the shutdown of the
> Gulf Stream, which, if that occurred -- and, you know, the Gulf Stream
> runs along the US East Coast and up into the North Atlantic and brings
> a tremendous amount of warmth to Europe. We know it has shut down in
> the past. If it shuts down again, Europe will face very severe
> conditions, cold conditions. And that heat, of course, has to go
> somewhere, that was normally going north and being dissipated. My
> guess is it's going to go into the Gulf of Mexico and the southern
> Atlantic and cause more severe hurricanes and so forth. But, you know,
> we have to do more science on that to really justify that view."
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