"Pete B" wrote in message
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"Alastair McDonald" k wrote
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Although I am by no means, a climatological expert, in a warming World your
above idea to me makes more sense than the issues covered in the recent
Horizon program where the suggestion is the switching off of the Gulf Stream
would cause a major cooling of this part of the World. I find the latter
difficult to understand on the basis that, yes there may be major changes to
the Gulf Stream, but if these are caused by significant melting of the
Arctic Ice and subsequent warming of the Northern Continental regions, then
how would we cool to the extent suggested by that programme? I would have
thought that if our local climate is affected by such a major change, any
cooling would be much less than that suggested and more likely, we may just
have quieter 'high pressure' dominated winters but not repeated 1947/63 type
winters with ice bound ports or anything like that. But then, what do I know
about it?....

It nice to hear that you agree with me. Most people do, but the scientists
seem
to resent my muscleing in on their field. Actually the top scientist in this
field at
present, Wally Broecker, agrees with us. See his "poking an angry beast"
article.
http://faculty.washington.edu/wcalvi...roecker99.html

Cheers, Alastair.