LA CANADA FLINTRIDGE - Europe, North Africa and North America stay warm because of balmy waters floating up from the tropics and chilly currents that drift south through the Atlantic Ocean, like a giant conveyor belt. The cycle, which includes the Gulf Stream along the East Coast, has been speeding up for the last 15 years, according to a recent study by oceanographer Josh Willis at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
A group of scientists led by Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences has ventured into the middle of the South Atlantic to study the effects of climate change, ocean acidification and other factors on a type of microscopic plant. Their research has implications for one of the most important organisms in the oceanic food chain.
A team of meteorologists in Poland is predicting the coming winter will be the coldest in Europe in a thousand years. The forecast is based on a projected slowing of the Gulf Stream, the Atlantic Ocean, warm water conveyor belt that moderates the European climate. That, in turn, would allow colder air from Siberia to penetrate farther south putting a big chill in major European cities.
Faced with problems, humans look for solutions; that is part of who we are. Sometimes, though, solutions are tried before the problem (or what appears to be a problem) is understood. In such cases, problem-solving can be futile and, worse, counterproductive. Job One, therefore, is to stop and think about the issue at hand. Nowhere is caution against an open-ended regime of tax-spend- regulate more necessary than with climate-change policy. The emotional, politicized debate over global warming has produced a fire-ready-aim mentality, despite great and still growing scientific uncertainty about the problem. For example, recent issues of Science magazine (published by the American Association for the Advancement of Science) have questioned three of Al Gore's pet alarms: more intense hurric...
... theory and modeling still indicate that ocean temperature has only a minimal direct effect on st... greenhouse effect would disrupt the Atlantic "conveyor belt" responsible for Europe's mild clim...
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The study showed that as sea surface temperatures have risen, so have the duration and speeds of winds in the strongest tropical cyclones over each ocean basin, with the greatest increases over the north Atlantic. The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has warned that global warming may raise the sea by another 7 inches to 23 inches before the close of this century. According to a recent report from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the number of human beings threatened by flooding due to climate change could triple by 2070 and property losses could increase to $35 trillion.
Scientists and wildlife experts agree that Maine's ecosystem is changing, and the insects, mammals and trees are giving us early warning signals that the changes are happening quickly. The Maine of the future will feature warmer winters, less snow cover and increased rain and sleet, Paul Mayewski, director of the University of Maine's Climate Change Institute, said during a recent interview. As the Atlantic Ocean begins to warm, Maine will see more hurricane and tropical storm activity, which will change the face of the state's rugged coastline, and its cherished moose could disappear completely.
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WITH hurricane season in full swing and the devastating effects of Hurricane Katrina being felt in the southeast, there has been some disagreement among climate scientists on the potential impact of global climate change on future hurricanes in the Atlantic Ocean. Last year, claims were made that the frequency of hurricanes will increase due to global climate change. For example, after Hurricane Bonnie, Charley and Frances hit Florida in 2004, the prime minister of England, Tony Blair, and many prominent American scientists told the world that the hurricanes were due to global warming.
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