BRUSSELLS - Scientists engaged in climate-change research have found the first signs of the slowing of the Gulf Stream current which tempers the climate of Western Europe. The research was reported in the May 16th Sunday Times.
The slowing is the consequence of the greenhouse effect and a sign of temperature changes. The Gulf Stream current brings equatorial waters from the Atlantic Ocean to Northern Europe. These waters, warmed to tropical temperatures, influence the European climate.
However this huge ocean current, which dilutes northern cold waters with southern ones, will probably totally disappear because of the warming of the Earth’s climate, some scientists believe.
Editors’ Note: All predictions concerning climate change are hypothetical, and involve a numbery of factors which are still not clear to science.
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