04-02-2005, 23:40
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Location: Cambridge
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Re: Alarm at new climate warning
"Hotter World May Freeze Britain"
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Originally Posted by The Guardian
Fifty-fifty chance that warm Gulf Stream may be halted
Paul Brown
Wednesday February 2, 2005
The Guardian
The chance of the Gulf Stream, which brings warm waters around the British Isles, being halted, sending temperatures plummeting by more than 5C, is now more than 50%, a scientific conference on climate change was told yesterday.
The conference, called by Tony Blair to inform world leaders about the urgency of reducing carbon dioxide emissions, was told of a series of new research findings which showed that climate change was speeding up and would be worse than hitherto expected.
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Anyone seen "The Day After Tomorrow"?
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