Finally, the ‘oceanic conveyance belt’ as you call it, will not stop, because it can not stop. It exists as a direct result of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, similar to the jet stream; it is a heat transfer mechanism between warmer and cooler latitudes.

Sure it can stop, if the sun stops shining, or the Earth stops rotating on its axis. Of course if the continents suddenly shifted thousands of miles the current would change dramatically. Essentially the current configuration of continents keeps the THC the way it is.

Leo Z.

Don’t you know that by going warmer, the iceberg melting will block the oceanic conveyance belt, which would freeze the north hemisphere, which was the cause of the ice ages?

Um… I don’t know where you got that information, or if you just invented it, but it’s all wrong.

So, time for some well-intended education:

Most polar and Greenland ice is far, far below zero degrees C. Total global warming over the past century has been about 0.6 degrees C [and that slight warming has been almost entirely reversed].

Therefore, even a couple of degrees of warming would not be nearly enough to raise the temperature of the polar ice sheets, or of Greenland, enough to begin melting the ice on a massive scale. Besides, the globe is currently cooling, not warming, so there’s nothing to get alarmed about.

Finally, the ‘oceanic conveyance belt’ as you call it, will not stop, because it can not stop. It exists as a direct result of the Second Law of Thermodynamics, similar to the jet stream; it is a heat transfer mechanism between warmer and cooler latitudes.

Don’t be frightened, Leo. That’s what Al Gore wants. He makes his $millions by trying to scare people. Only the rubes fall for it. Don’t be a rube.

Don’t you know that by going warmer, the iceberg melting will block the oceanic conveyance belt, which would freeze the north hemisphere, which was the cause of the ice ages?

Learn your sciences well before come here and waste everybody’s time!

I believe it is the latter, only because cooler temps would condense it back into water, yes? Does warming that has to happen to create increases in water vapor have to reduce precipitation?

This, as I understand it (admittedly not all that much) would suggest a warming in the upper levels of the atmosphere that goes down. How would CO2 facilitation of increases in water vapor affect precipitation? Also, if GW has nothing to do with hurricane cycles, how would we expect it to cause desertification?

Cold has always been worse for Humanity than warm. Cold wipes out entire civilizations, crushes 40%-50% of the arable land under glaciers, gives whole continents the flu. Warm causes comparatively few deaths, makes more land arable than is lost to desertification, and activates a few viruses that have lain dormant.

Darwin had the reason that the Norse, Gaels, Picts and Germanic tribes grew taller and stronger than other Europeans. These folk were bred to survive in the cold; but so many of them died in that cold, they rarely had sufficient numbers to conquer. The Norse’s biggest moment in the Sun (pun intended) was in the 800s to 1000s A.D. — when Greenland was Green, the world warmer — and the Norse had the numbers to lay waste to Western Europe.

Warm is better. So pray that our planet gets more warm, and less cold (unless you fear a return of Norsemen, say)…

Warmest Regards,

Can’t we all agree that this is a crisis.