On Aug 20, 5:06 am, "nbzoo" wrote:
"charles bash" wrote in message

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Bonzo usually gives some sharp answers in the Global Warming realm. But
his assertion that the Gulf Stream flows "due to wind" is seriously off
base.

Every account I ever read about the G.S. is that it starts out with
"Momentum" a flow velocity of around 6 knots. It is so wide and deep
that this momentum carries it for thousands of miles. There is much
"splitting off." of the G.S. that often makes me wonder.

The elevation of the Bay of Yucatan is one foot higher, IIRC,, than than
the Atlantic Ocean at the point of discharge through a relative
"constriction" opening which creates the beginning of the G.S.

Encyclopedia Britannica is a good source on this, IIRC..
C. Bash.

Finally, in Europe in particular, there is a fear of a reversal of the Gulf
Stream and thus-paradoxically-the onset of very much colder weather. Although
there is ample

evidence of fluctuations in the strength of the Gulf Stream from time to time,
research has shown no sign of any secular slowdown over the past decade. Nor is
there any reason to suppose that there will be even if there is further global
warming over the coming decades, since the Gulf Stream is largely a surface
current and thus a wind-driven phenomenon.

http://ipa.org.au/files/LAWSON_ClimateChange.pdf

Lawson? Could that, perchance, be the father of Nigella Lawson, a
famously failed politician who laid down groundwork for a current
demise of the pound sterling, by pooh-poohing the idea of a European
single currency. And now he's pontificating on another subject he has
zero cognisance of. Whale Oil Beef Hooked!