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Goodbye Gulf Stream: Hello Houston, We Have a Problem!
September 20, 2010 - 8:54pm
Goodbye Gulf Stream: Hello Houston, We Have a Problem
http://www.zcommunications.org/hello-houston-we-have-a-problem-by-stuart...
"I'm afraid I have some really bad news today. It appears, from satellite images, that the Ocean Conveyor Belt, aka the North Atlantic Drift, aka the Gulf Stream, aka the Thermohaline Circulation stopped approximately a month ago...
I guess we all need to prepare for a big increase in extreme weather events. As well as a big drop in world food production. Scary stuff..."
The link in this article goes to a piece by a somewhat dodgy character named 'Lord Stirling'. I have seen nothing else on this and therefore am not convinced the situation is as stated. If anyone finds that this is a hoax or conversely there is other evidence of Conveyor Belt irregularities, please post.
There are daily sea surface temperatures from various sources for various purposes. If the Gulf Stream and North Atlantic Drift had disappeared, we would have heard about it. It could just not stop overnight anyway for fairly obvious reasons (it would take time to transfer all of the momentum and transform the kinetic energy). The Thermohaline Circulation is global, and if that had shut down we would have heard about it too.
http://weather.unisys.com/surface/sst.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shutdown_of_thermohaline_circulation
Curse and damn them and their endless coverups all to hell.
Perhaps it has not happened YET, but the conditions are there for it to happen in the near future, geologically speaking.
Or maybe the authorities are just not yet ready to tell the truth to the public, because "it would cause a panic" as that age old excuse for hiding the truth goes. We don't know who to believe, but the bloggers make a good case for the Gulf Spill to be affecting the ocean circulation.
The salinity and the temperature of the various layers and sources of ocean waters are factors that determine this circulation, and both of them are changing.
That first blog claims that the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has an effect too. Edited Quote:
"the billions of gallons of oil BP spilled in the Gulf combined with the Corexit to form a thick emulsion (sludge) that dropped to the seabed and which is gradually working its way up the East Coast of the US, and it appears that it's having a major effect on ocean currents"
and "oil breaks down the boundary layers of the warm water stream and effectively destroys the current vorticity . This is what is happening in the Gulf of Mexico and in the Atlantic Ocean."
Another blog [linked from original blog] has a lot more "info" [it is is accurate or not, I am not sure].
Link to that 2nd blog > http://tinyurl.com/273e8zq
If the observed changes are human caused, we could do something about it, but we probably won't.
There is a serious risk of the Gulf Stream changing. If there was real evidence that it had would we would be seeing a lot more news about it than these sites. The last link is to (to use a technical term) a complete nutbar.