[Terrapreta] Ice-age anyone?

[David Yarrow]

shutting off the global ocean water circulation system -- or even shutting off one segment of it in the north atlantic -- will hardly bring about global cooling.  yes, that would bring local cooling -- a sharp temperature decline for east coast of north america, northern europe, iceland, greenland, and other coasts currently warmed by the gulf stream.  but hardly global cooling.

quite the opposite, shutdown of the thermohaline system -- or a major shift in its operation -- is one of the key tipping points that will likely initiate rapid onset climate change.

globally, shutting off this thermal circulation in the sea will be catastrophic.  the best analogy i can offer is a loss of the gulf stream will reverse global warming about as well as pinching off coolant tubes in your refrigerator to keep your freezer frozen.  

the sea circulates at least 10 times more heat around the biosphere than all the atmosphere.  if all that excess energy -- thermal and electric -- is bottled up in the equator, it will have to find another route to disburse itself.  given the sea's huge surface area, this energy amounts to many factors more than all human power plants and nuclear bombs.  good luck keeping this thermal genie safely inside the geomagnetic bottle.

or we could wait and watch to see which theory or strategy is correct.

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David Yarrow
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  ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Greg and April 
  To: gordon eliott ; Terra Preta 
  Sent: Monday, April 28, 2008 11:23 AM
  Subject: Re: [Terrapreta] Ice-age anyone?


  In not going to get involved in this discussion other than to say that there is a marine research institute over on the east coast and allot of the scientist there tend to believe that a solid warming trend will trigger a global cooling event due to the ice melting and the stopping the gulf stream from bringing warn water from the equator to the northern latitudes - their argument is fairly convincing.

  Greg H.
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