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To: Bonefish who wrote (916959)1/25/2016 10:58:37 AM
From: Wharf Rat  Respond to of 1572776
 
Naked apes break Gulf Stream; climate deniers deny ancestry...de tails at noon

Blizzard Jonas and the slowdown of the Gulf Stream System
F stefan @ 24 January 2016

Blizzard Jonas on the US east coast has just shattered snowfall records. Both weather forecasters and climate experts have linked the high snowfall amounts to the exceptionally warm sea surface temperatures off the east coast. In this post I will examine a related question: why are sea surface temperatures so high there, as shown in the snapshot from Climate Reanalyzer below?



I will argue that this warmth (as well as the cold blob in the subpolar Atlantic) is partly due to a slowdown of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), sometimes referred to as the Gulf Stream System, in response to global warming. There is two points to this argument:

realclimate.org



To: Bonefish who wrote (916959)1/25/2016 11:47:56 AM
From: Brumar89  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1572776
 
Rat still thinks Gore was right.