Straight out of the movie The Day After Tomorrow, yet another hyperventilating alarmist scary fable
Climate change will destroy the planet’s circulatory system
We can’t have the birds or the bees. We can’t have woolly mammoths. For the love of Gotye, even the red pandas are in danger. And if we keep releasing all these greenhouse gases into the atmosphere, soon we won’t even have water that flows in the right direction: A pair of new studies suggests that warming temperatures and melting Arctic ice sheets could have drastic effects on global ocean currents. Welcome back to Spoiler Alerts, where climate change grayscales all the Nyan Cats.
According to some research, “climate change” did help cause the extinction of the wooly mammoth. Of course, there weren’t any fossil fueled vehicles around back then, nor any of the other things Cult of Climastrology members Blame. Might it have been *GASP* natural, much like most of today’s minuscule 1.4F warming since 1850?
Part of the problem with melting ice, argues the first study, is that it’s mostly freshwater. Don’t get me wrong, I love freshwater — can’t get enough of the stuff— but cold freshwater doesn’t sink the same way cold saltwater does (because it’s not as dense). And part of what helps the currents do their job is the fact that cold water tends to sink. Any disruptions in temperature and salinity are likely to toy with that system in a severely objectionable manner. The Washington Post reports:
Blah blah blah. Realistically, the science is, in fact, sound. This has happened many times before, where changes in the oceanic circulatory systems have changed, moving from warm to cool, just like there are fluctuations from cool to warm. Earth is a very dynamic system. What it doesn’t mean is that mankind is mostly/solely responsible for the tiny warming during the Modern Warm Period.
