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While the global community is greatly concerned about global warming and its consequences, few people in the science quarter viewing things from a different perspective. The scientists of Europe and the United States are taking a new look at the greatest hazard such climate change could result, especially for the northern hemisphere - an unexpected shift into a new ice age. This is rather menacing and thwarting.

If we sum up the situation and apprehensions, fresh water coming due to the meltdown of Greenland glaciers and the polar icecaps, runs into the northern Atlantic, it will cause to shut down the Gulf Stream that provides warmth to otherwise deadly cold Europe and northeastern North America.
In the Gulf of Mexico the Gulf Stream originates and, passes through the Straits of Florida as the Florida Current, and then flows northward alongside the southeast coast of the United States with a width of c.50 mi (80 km). North of Cape Hatteras, it is separated from the coast by a thin southern extension of the cold Labrador Current and flows NE into The Atlantic Ocean. Where the warm surface waters of the Gulf Stream join the cold winds coupled with the Labrador Current, one of the densest concentrations of fog in the world happens.
The Gulf Stream is flowing with an average velocity of 4 mi (6.4 km) per hr but retards as it widens to the north. The water temperature at the start of the Gulf Stream is 80F; (27C;); the temperature experiences deterioration as the current moves northwards.
One doesn't need to be a geographer or cartographer to know that the latitude of much of Europe and Scandinavia is the matching to as that of Alaska and permafrost-locked parts of northern Canada and central Siberia. Comprehension of this fact can help us to understand or sense the synonymity in climates of Europe, the United States than northern Canada or Siberia.
The entire water body that we know as ocean is just not a motionless pool; in reality, it is a huge water mass, which is constantly in movement. The share of ocean in the total surface area of this globe is about seventy percent. Airstreams moving across ocean surface, cause to generate waves and currents, whereas the gravitational force gently stirs and splashes it backward and forth, and in a lunar rhythm of tides, this process definitely gets intensified.
The movement of surface currents push by the wind is instinctive; we all are not in oblivion about the rippling on the surface of a pond due to wind effect. Thus the

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