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Environment & Energy

TexasProgresive

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1. If the Atlantic Conveyor is slowing it should affect NW Europe

Reply to hatrack (Original post)

Sun Jan 31, 2016, 09:59 AM

Jan 2016

with more severe low temperatures. Is that happening.

I have been concerned about the slowing or ceasing of the movement of warm water from the Gulf of Mexico and cold water from the Arctic because this makes NW Europe much more habitable. I've never read what might me the result of bottling up all that heat in the Gulf and the Southern North Atlantic. We live in interesting times.

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