[at-l] (OT) Global Climate Change

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 06:29 PM 2/23/2004 -0500, J Bryan Kramer wrote:
>If I recall my bestiary of Brit Papers, the Observer is far left, which in
>England is really saying something.
>
>But on the subject of the climate in Europe suffering a rapid and drastic
>change for the worse, that is very possible. It all rests on the health of
>the Atlantic Conveyer...aka the Gulf Stream system. There is very good
>evidence that the Gulf Stream has stopped flowing suddenly in the past. This
>is based on some startling Greenland ice cores, which show that the climate
>can flop from warmish to ice age in a couple decades and the reverse just as
>fast.

Articles of interest:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/climatechange/story/0,12374,1083419,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/environment/story.jsp?story=484490