{"id":6875,"date":"2015-03-27T05:56:52","date_gmt":"2015-03-27T10:56:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6875"},"modified":"2015-03-27T05:56:52","modified_gmt":"2015-03-27T10:56:52","slug":"deep-concerns-as-climate-impacts-on-gulf-stream-flow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=6875","title":{"rendered":"Deep concerns as climate impacts on Gulf Stream flow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"single-post-h1\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.climatenewsnetwork.net\/deep-concerns-as-climate-impacts-on-gulf-stream-flow\/\" target=\"_blank\"><b>Deep concerns as climate impacts on Gulf Stream flow<\/b><\/a><\/h3>\n<p class=\"first-para\"><strong>Ocean scientists find evidence of an increasing slowdown in the Atlantic\u2019s \u201cinvisible river\u201d that could seriously affect weather and sea levels in the US and Europe.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>LONDON, 25 March, 2015<\/em>\u00a0\u2212 Climate scientists have once again confirmed an alarming<a title=\"EurekAlert: Atlantic Ocean overturning found to slow down already today\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurekalert.org\/emb_releases\/2015-03\/pifc-aoo032015.php\" target=\"_blank\">slowdown\u00a0in the circulation<\/a>\u00a0of the Atlantic Ocean\u00a0\u2212\u00a0the process that drives the current that warms Europe, and powers the planetary climate.<\/p>\n<p>And this time, they are prepared to say that the changes are recent \u2212 and may be linked to global warming.<\/p>\n<p>The Atlantic Conveyor is a great invisible river that flows in two directions at the same time. The equatorial surface waters \u2212 warm, and therefore less dense \u2212 flow towards the north in the form of the Gulf Stream. Around Greenland, the denser and colder Arctic waters sink to the ocean bottom and begin their progress towards the south.<\/p>\n<p>It is the difference in temperatures that maintains the turnover and keeps the climate engine going.<\/p>\n<p>As a consequence, the two-way traffic of warm and cold water redistributes heat around the planet and keeps Britain and maritime Europe in relatively mild conditions.<\/p>\n<p>But as\u00a0<a title=\"Heat is on to slow down faster rise in temperatures\" href=\"http:\/\/www.climatenewsnetwork.net\/heat-is-on-to-slow-down-faster-rise-in-temperatures\/\" target=\"_blank\">global average temperatures rise<\/a>, and the\u00a0<a title=\"Why Greenland is likely to melt more quickly\" href=\"http:\/\/www.climatenewsnetwork.net\/why-greenland-is-likely-to-melt-more-quickly\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greenland ice sheet melts<\/a>, ocean scientists have warned that the speed of the ocean turnover could be put at risk.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;click on the above link to read the rest of the article&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deep concerns as climate impacts on Gulf Stream flow Ocean scientists find evidence of an increasing slowdown in the Atlantic\u2019s \u201cinvisible river\u201d that could seriously affect weather and sea levels in the US and Europe. LONDON, 25 March, 2015\u00a0\u2212 Climate scientists have once again confirmed an alarmingslowdown\u00a0in the circulation\u00a0of the Atlantic Ocean\u00a0\u2212\u00a0the process that drives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[4463,4462,141,281,2196,4461,2158,4464],"class_list":["post-6875","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","tag-atlantic-conveyor","tag-atlantic-ocean","tag-climate-change","tag-europe","tag-greenland","tag-gulf-stream","tag-maritimes","tag-mild-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=6875"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6876,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6875\/revisions\/6876"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6875"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6875"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6875"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}