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Politics : Politics of Energy
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To: Hawkmoon who wrote (36351)12/9/2012 3:38:36 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Read Replies (2) of 86356
 
"I thought melting ice sheets were supposed to disrupt the salinity of the water, therefore interrupting the oceanic conveyor and halting of the gulf stream bringing warmer water to the north?"

That's one possibility. Another is that it won't. A third is that it will change paths. It's an ongoing experiment, and we'll find out, someday. If our civilization is still viable in 200 years, there will be a serial study of it. If we're not, there probable won't be.
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