[Skybird]

Let's see what the Gulf Stream will have to say on it. the real irony is that man-made global warming maybe could cause some paradox effects. The Guld stream lready has lost around 20% in energetic activity due to changing water conditions (salinity being a key variable). It cannot be ruled out that global warming makes the water pump of the global currents change in ways that they work antagonistic to the warming climate, and cause regional falls in temperature where the rest of the globe heats up. I do not see this as a likely outcome currently, but we are still not competent enough to calculate energetic changes in currents due to changing atmospheric conditions, changes in the balance between salt and sweet water, and the way in which these interact with the global system of deep sea currents. we only know that the less difference there is between salt and sweet water, the less energetic the ocean pump pf ciurrents seem to work. and the polar ice caps are doomed to go, like almost all mountain ice and glaciers (many already gone anyway).

We are bungling things whose complex interactions we just have started to imagine - just to ignore this information next, in the name of economic developement. But everything keeps running in cycles, and what goes up, must and will come down. Including human civilisations.