More global warming …

More global warming news:

Britain is likely to be plunged into an ice age within our lifetime by global warming, new research suggests.

A study, which is being taken seriously by top government scientists, has uncovered a change “of remarkable amplitude” in the circulation of the waters of the North Atlantic.

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The development – described as “the largest and most dramatic oceanic change ever measured in the era of modern instruments”, by the US Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute, which led the research – threatens to turn off the Gulf Stream, which keeps Europe’s weather mild.

If that happens, Britain and northern Europe are expected to switch abruptly to the climate of Labrador – which is on the same latitude – bringing a nightmare scenario where farmland turns to tundra and winter temperatures drop below -20C. The much-heralded cold snap predicted for the coming week would seem balmy by comparison.

So will this wake up us folks who are against the radical measures being put forth by environmentalists to reverse the warming trend? Before I answer that, let me show you what’s hiding behind that ellipses (…) above:

Similar events in pre-history are known to have caused sudden “flips” of the climate, bringing ice ages to northern Europe within a few decades.

And later on in the article:

When the Gulf Stream abruptly turned off about 12,700 years ago, it brought about a 1,300-year cold period, known as the Younger Dryas. This froze Britain in continuous permafrost, drove summer temperatures down to 10C and winter ones to -20C, and brought icebergs as far south as Portugal. Europe could not sustain anything like its present population.

12,700 years ago, there were no cars or CFCs, yet this same phenomenon occurred. According to studies I’ve cited before, there’s a natural cycle going on here that goes way, way back, and to suggest that there’s anything man can do to reverse it is the height of arrogance (or power-grabbing, or both).

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