Alarm over dramatic weakening of Gulf Stream

There's some bad news and there's some good news.

Bad news: it looks like the North Atlantic current is indeed weakening and that will lead to temperature drops in Northwest Europe particularly in winter.

The good (?) news is that on current showings ...

Any cooling driven by a weakening of the Atlantic current would probably only slow warming rather than cancel it out all together. Even if a slowdown in the current put the brakes on warming over Britain and parts of Europe, the impact would be felt more extremely elsewhere, he said.

I had been wondering if that might be the net effect. We should recall, however that most other parts of the world will not be so fortunate and that their problems will still be ours, too.



Guardian Unlimited | Science | Alarm over dramatic weakening of Gulf Stream:Filed in: climate, cooling, Atlantic_current, UK, NWEurope