El Nino forecast: Texas Chilly
Here is a 42 second video forecast for the US Winter. If they are correct, Winter Texans might be in for one of those cold years. We are going to AZ and it's supposed to be cooler and wetter too. Y...
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I remember reading that if the glaciers ever melted they would change the salinity of the oceans...
...if memory serves, the Earth's surface is covered by about 9~10% ice (sum-total of all glaciers and mountain-top snows) and about 70% liquid water (oceans & lakes); the rest is land. The interesting thing to note about "glacial ice", is that it may have taken 2, 5, 7, 15+ centuries to accumulate/form, but(!), can melt very, very, VERY quickly (ie. in decades). So, when the really large mega-glaciers melt (like now), the fresh water rides on top of the denser ocean salt water (this is what changes the THC circulation). If memory works, I believe that the Arctic ice sheet is melting far more rapidly than the Antarctic ice mass (I stand corrected if someone has contrary info).
...so imagine the Greenland ice sheet melting out, then changing the course of (or, stopping) the thermohaline Atlantic circulation! This wouldn't be very fun for the British isles (nor Europe), because it would in all likelihood trigger a European continental ice age...fairly quickly.
