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In article <1991Jan10.023843.27351@agate.berkeley.edu> elm@sprite.berkeley.edu (ethan miller) writes:
|In article <1991Jan9.170924.140@amd.com> phil@brahms.amd.com (Phil Ngai) writes:
|%In article <1991Jan9.110448.22547@agate.berkeley.edu> elm@sprite.Berkeley.EDU (ethan miller) writes:
|%|And you don't believe that this will happen?  As another post mentions,
|%
|%Well, how fast are the ice caps going to melt? So fast that the
|%Gulf Stream won't have time to throughly mix the fresh water
|%throughout the oceans?
|
|Perhaps you don't understand the problem.  Currently, the driving

I understand the "problem" just fine, you don't understand the
question. Let me put it in simpler terms.

How fast are the ice caps going to melt? How much will they
slow down the Gulf Stream? Isn't it likely that the ice caps
will melt slowly enough that the Gulf Stream, which is moving
slower but probably still moving, will mix the fresh water
throughout the oceans enough that the Gulf Stream won't
be stopped by this?

|what the salinity of the salty water.  As an interesting
|aside, the effect would be minimized if the polar cap melted
|all at once.  If that occurred, there would be no constant
|inflow of fresh water to slow down the Gulf Stream (but I
|shudder to think of the other consequences :-).

I think you've got it backwards. If the ice caps melted all
at once, it could stop the Gulf Stream which would no longer
be able to mix the water, causing a long term (several decades?)
stoppage.

|as using fossil fuel directly.  Your argument is the worst
|kind of argument, though.  "He's not doing it; why should I?"

As a matter of fact, I am doing it, I just don't see that
overall, it's going to make any difference. I vote too,
and feel the same way about voting. But I do it.


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