Part 2.

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At the end of part 1 we asked ourselves what was wrong if the climate gets warmer surely our heating bills would be less. BUT, as the Nationwide Building Society advert. says “Doesn’t work like that!”.

We know that glaciers melting in the Arctic and Antarctic are melting more quickly than fresh snow can top them up. The amount of extra ice that thawed this year in the Arctic has been an area of about ten times the size of Great Britain. That’s a lot of very cold water. So, does this matter? I’m afraid so, it is going to mess up one of the Earth’s very important conveyer belts which is particularly important to us in Great Britain. That is the Gulf Stream from the Gulf of Mexico. The Arctic to Mexico is a *-! #*– long way!

How does it work then? Cold water sinks to the bottom of the Atlantic around the North Pole. This water is drawn along the bottom of the Ocean by hot water evaporating in the Gulf of Mexico (this is what causes their hurricanes). A vast amount of hot water does not evaporate, it flows down a temperature gradient towards the North again. Think of the gradient as a slope HOT to COLD. Everything in nature goes down a slope and has to be pushed or pulled up a slope.

The Gulf Stream is what keeps our climate warm and often wet. So - what’s the scenario for our Grandchildren?

The next likely happening is that there is more cold water than the Gulf of Mexico can heat up. The Gulf Stream will stop. Without it our climate will become like that of Central Europe – cold with snow for most of the winter. Cool wet summers with nothing but a faded sun to warm us.

While this is happening there are also likely to be enormous lumps of ice from glaciers falling into the sea. This in turn is likely to cause tsunamis. Because of the extra water in the oceans due to melting glaciers sea levels will rise. Coastal areas will be inundated. People in coastal areas will lose their livelihoods. In the Arctic itself the Inuit people will lose their food supply. Polar bear numbers are expected to fall to nearly half by 2050.

As the winters get longer and colder the ice caps start to grow in size again. This will continue until we enter a new ice age with Scotland weighed down with glaciers. Surviving humans and animals will concentrate in the South and East, away from the harsh Atlantic weather systems.

Lets think for a moment about what we really do know.

• We know that we are in an interglacial period. That is the warm period between two ice ages.
• We know that the next ice age is overdue.
• We know that we are also due for a magnetic pole reversal. This is where the Earth’s magnetic field flips and North and South swop over. There are many magnetic anomalies in the Bermuda Triangle. Could this be the start of a Pole Reversal and explanation for the unexplained happenings there?
  One thing is certain. We can sit back and let it happen or we can try to do our bit to help and get our governments to do the same instead of playing lip service.

That the climate is changing – this is normal. What we don’t know is whether so-called “Global Warming” is all due to man’s activities or not. The jury is still out.
But, shouldn’t we have a try at doing something to help, especially as we could save money and energy.

Very soon I will show you how to save money and energy while you do your bit to make life better for our grandchildren.

PS

The fabled North West Passage is passable for the first time in recorded history. Enough ice melted last summer to allow shipping to pass, not freely but without too much difficulty. Here  are some of the repercussions this will cause, you can probably think of more.  Freighters will be able to take a short cut between continents thus saving time and energy as they will use less fuel.  Polar bears will have to swim for it to cross from the American continent to Russia. Eskimos will lose hunting grounds and social contact as they will need boats instead of sleds. The climatic effects of so much cold cold melt water in that area are not yet known.