New Study Definitively Confirms Gulf Stream Weakening

m3t00 , 10 months ago

thought that loop breaks off in the gulf from time to time. They should pick a less chaotic part to measure. scijinks.gov/gulf-stream/

benjhm , 10 months ago

Only 4% in 40 years, that’s just a Sverdrup in the ocean… (±1.2Sv)… but wait, just how big is a sverdrup …?
It’s good they keep measuring such things regularly over a long time. However the implication is not yet obvious - as people confuse the subtropical gulf stream off florida - mainly driven by the spin of the earth (not changing) - with its branch that turns off up the north atlantic, pulled by sinking cold salty water at the ice-edge (which is changing) - it’s the latter which is fundamental to the carbon cycle as well as the climate of NW europe.

throws_lemy OP , 10 months ago

1 Sverdrup equal to 1 million cubic metres per second

joneskind , 10 months ago

East-Europeans:

« Fuck »

Me, a French heat-hater from North of France

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Anyway, terrible news.