Ocean Circulation Doesn't Work As Expected

techno-vampire writes with word that a long-accepted model of deep ocean currents is inaccurate. Deep Sea News has a summary of the research, to be published in Nature. The Woods Hole press release has more details. "A 50-year-old model of global thermohaline circulation that predicts a deep Atlantic counter current below the Gulf Stream is now formally called into question by an armada of subsurface RAFOS floats drifting 700 - 1500m deep. Nearly 80% of the RAFOS floats escaped the Deep Western Boundary Current (DWBC), drifting into the open ocean. This confirms suspicions that have been around since the 1990s, and likely plays havoc with global models of climate change."

Comments

Re:Don't tell me, let me guess...

[quangdog]

Nope. The Obama administration will save us all by passing some legislation to regulate the currents back to the way they are supposed to work.

We'll be fine.

Re:Driving Blind

[Nimey]

I'm sure that will work really well with a far larger population and less land to work with. Do you think before you touch your keyboard?

Re:Driving Blind

[d3ac0n]

I care about whether we are crying because we realize we're the next species that's going to go extinct.

Then the best thing we can do is to stop meddling with our economies by trying to pass cap and trade (and other socialist, big govt. style) legislation, and freeing up our industry to devise ways to get us off this rock if and when the need to do so arises.

Currently, every single solution proposed by the high priesthood of the Unified Church of Climate Change (formerly the Church of Global Warming) has been essentially Socialism, Communism, and Fascism (not necessarily in that order). Which will (of course) utterly cripple our industry and our ability to adapt to change.

Top heavy centrally controlled monolithic organizations (AKA: Socialism, Communism, Fascism) are slow to change. Decentralized open organizations (AKA: Federalist Capitalism) are rapid adapters. GNU and OSS have taught us this. Why the GW acolytes haven't gotten this yet is beyond me.