Re: Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation
Posted by
jack ruby on 7/18/2009, 1:29 pm
| The possible disruption of the ocean currents which your article centers on, I think, will become the focus of the global warming debate in the next few years. I posted an article a day or so ago containing computer model research which show that the Arctic Ocean could be mostly ice-free in 30 years. This is much faster than previous models have indicated. If so, you would have much of this melted and cool water dumped into our northern oceans. I think the immediate impact might not be so much the rising of sea-levels as it would the disruption of the normal currents which circulate heat throughout the Atlantic (the Arctic is really an arm of the Atlantic) which would have a definite impact on global climate patterns. So I'm glad you posted this article speculating on possible changes in the ocean circulations resulting from global warming and the melting of the north polar ice-cap. |
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