Scientists have been warning for years that global warming will impact the Gulf Stream system, but what effect will it have? To read more click here:http://blog.worldweatheronline.com/2014/04/03/gulf-stream-global-warming/?preview=true
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Gulf Stream & Global Warming
The Gulf Stream is an ocean current system that is
a combination of the Florida current, the North
Atlantic Drift and the Gulf Stream.
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The Gulf Stream Shut Down
At the end of the last Ice Age
there was a large amount of ice
melt water that caused the
density of our oceans to change.
The influx of freshwater into the
salt water of our oceans meant
that the North Atlantic was less
dense and didn’t sink.
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UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Predictions
The IPCC reported that
the circulation of
warm and cold water
in the Atlantic Ocean
will weaken by 20% to
44% before the end of
this century.
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Research into Climate Change
More than 2,000 scientists worked for other
three years to compile the published report on
the effects of climate change and the underlying
causes.