Comments on: Gulf Stream Not Slowing http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/11/02/gulf-stream-not-slowing/ Toujours Le Meme Thu, 04 Dec 2008 21:59:57 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Wolfie http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/11/02/gulf-stream-not-slowing/#comment-2664 Wolfie Wed, 22 Nov 2006 09:55:17 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/11/02/276/#comment-2664 <div>The giveaway is at the top :</div> <div><!--StartFragment --> Published: <strong>22 Dec 2005</strong> <br />By: Bill McGuire</div> <div> Prior to the report I'm quoting, the article I linked to quotes the original research too.</div> <div><font face=Arial size=2>As for the others :</font></div> <div>  </div> <div><!--StartFragment --><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=1408&parasStartAt=2">2. Flu Pandemic</a><br /><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=1409">3. London/Thames Estuary Flood Defence Failure</a><br /><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=1409&parasStartAt=1">4. Catastrophic Sea-level rise</a><br /><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=1409&parasStartAt=2">5. Major Thames Valley/London Winter Storm</a><br /><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=1410">6. Strategic Earthquake</a><br /><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=1410&parasStartAt=1">7. Climate-perturbing volcanic eruption</a><br /><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=1410&parasStartAt=2">8. South-coast Tsunami</a><br /><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=1411">9. Sellafield explosion and fallout</a><br /><a href="http://www.channel4.com/news/special-reports/special-reports-storypage.jsp?id=1411&parasStartAt=1">10. Nuclear terrorist attack on the City</a> </div> <br /> <div>2 is more containable than scaremongers admit.</div> <div>  </div> <div>3, 4, 5 are some way in the future.</div> <div>  </div> <div>6, 7, 8 are a long way in the future and maybe not even during human existence.</div> <div>  </div> <div>9 and 10 are total hyperbole.</div> <br /> <div>We do have serious issues to worry about but blowing things out of proportion does no good whatsoever and dilutes the arguments of the well informed; note that some of the most scurrilous theories are paid for by the oil industry...</div> The giveaway is at the top :

Published: 22 Dec 2005
By: Bill McGuire
Prior to the report I’m quoting, the article I linked to quotes the original research too.
As for the others :
 

2 is more containable than scaremongers admit.
 
3, 4, 5 are some way in the future.
 
6, 7, 8 are a long way in the future and maybe not even during human existence.
 
9 and 10 are total hyperbole.

We do have serious issues to worry about but blowing things out of proportion does
no good whatsoever and dilutes the arguments of the well informed; note that
some of the most scurrilous theories are paid for by the oil
industry…
]]> By: Stef http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/11/02/gulf-stream-not-slowing/#comment-2663 Stef Tue, 21 Nov 2006 17:41:39 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/11/02/276/#comment-2663 What!? You mean this article was wrong!? <b>What we should fear in 2006</b> http://tinyurl.com/8aem7 Mind you, there's still five or six weeks left to go :( What!? You mean this article was wrong!?

What we should fear in 2006

http://tinyurl.com/8aem7

Mind you, there’s still five or six weeks left to go :(

]]> By: Wolfie http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/11/02/gulf-stream-not-slowing/#comment-2659 Wolfie Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:29:36 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/11/02/276/#comment-2659 Indeed Sophia, not a calamity but in a country which grinds to a halt with half an inch of snow it could be a tragedy. Xogg, you have to remember that scientific theories are exactly that and nothing more. They are published in the expectation that they will either be held to be possibly valid or false upon critical examination by their peers and that process can take some time. These are only possibilities. Even now we are not seeing the rise in sea levels predicted by the rate of melt in the polar regions. The reasons for this are many, the loss of methane hydrates is one but also more atmospheric water, partly due to increased evaporation and partly they are binding to industrial particulates - which interestingly contributes to dimming. They don't call weather systems an example of chaos theory for nothing! Indeed Sophia, not a calamity but in a country which grinds to a halt with half an inch of snow it could be a tragedy.

Xogg, you have to remember that scientific theories are exactly that and nothing more. They are published in the expectation that they will either be held to be possibly valid or false upon critical examination by their peers and that process can take some time. These are only possibilities.

Even now we are not seeing the rise in sea levels predicted by the rate of melt in the polar regions. The reasons for this are many, the loss of methane hydrates is one but also more atmospheric water, partly due to increased evaporation and partly they are binding to industrial particulates - which interestingly contributes to dimming. They don’t call weather systems an example of chaos theory for nothing!

]]> By: Sophia http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/11/02/gulf-stream-not-slowing/#comment-2657 Sophia Tue, 07 Nov 2006 17:11:58 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/11/02/276/#comment-2657 Canadian winter is not a calamity, after all. Canadian winter is not a calamity, after all.

]]> By: xoggoth http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/11/02/gulf-stream-not-slowing/#comment-2656 xoggoth Tue, 07 Nov 2006 00:03:50 +0000 http://blog.twowolves.co.uk/2006/11/02/276/#comment-2656 Read the other day that far from sea level rising it may drop considerably due to loss of all the methane hydrates on the ocean floor. I am starting to get very confused. I think we should all make up own theories. Read the other day that far from sea level rising it may drop considerably due to loss of all the methane hydrates on the ocean floor. I am starting to get very confused. I think we should all make up own theories.

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