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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Land Shark who wrote (32089)	2/5/2011 10:36:28 PM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 36917

There are a lot of people who think the "The fuel for the 21st Century" will be wishful thinking. I keep telling you he is unbalanced. If I was more PC and infected with the need to be more civil, and he was a multi-millionaire, I'd say eccentric, but...

To: Land Shark who wrote (32089)	2/6/2011 12:38:00 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Respond to of 36917

I got to wondering why he is so fixated on the Gulf Stream, so I went on da google with "CO2 subduction and climate change ocean". Guess what I found? Somebody is studying it, right off his coast. Gotta hand it to Maurice; he's consistently 180 degrees off, or 540. He tells us Gulf Stream so we don't figure out subduction of CO2 will slow down where he is. That old sunnofagun. Pretty sneaky. Oh, well; maybe it will go faster when the sunspots come back. Impacts of Climate Change on the Subduction of Mode and Intermediate Water Masses in the Southern Ocean Journal of Climate, Jun 15, 2009 by Downes, Stephanie M, Bindoff, Nathaniel L, Rintoul, Stephen R 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 … 15 Next ABSTRACT Changes in the temperature, salinity, and subduction of Subantarctic Mode Water (SAMW) and Antarctic Intermediate Water (AAIW) between the 1950s and 2090s are diagnosed using the CSIRO Mark version 3.5 (Mk3.5) climate system model Caps under a CO2 forcing that reaches 860 ppm by the year 2100. These Southern Ocean upper-limb water masses ventilate the ocean interior, and changes in their properties have been related to climate change in numerous studies. Over time, the authors follow the low potential vorticity and salinity minimum layers describing SAMW and AAIW and find that the water column in the 2090s shifts to lighter densities by approximately 0.2 kg m^sup -3^. The model projects a reduction in the SAMW and AAIW annual mean subduction rates as a result of a combination of a shallower mixed layer, increased potential vorticity at the base of the mixed layer, and a net buoyancy gain. There is little change in the projected total volume of SAMW transported into the ocean interior via the subduction process; however, the authors find a significant decrease in the subduction of AAIW. findarticles.com