Re: New Medit List Members?

I've been hearing about the possibility that global
warming could actually trigger an ice age:

As I understand it, the melting of the polar ice caps
can reduce the salinity of the oceans, which may in
turn disrupt the Gulf Stream current, which brings
warmer weather from the tropics to the North Atlantic.
This change could be very rapid in the northeastern US
and Canada and Europe, causing winter temperatures to
drop 5-10 degrees C within a decade (!!) and last
several hundred years.

Hmm, think about the gardening possibilities this
could offer...tundra, anyone?

Rona

http://www.whoi.edu/home/about/whatsnew_abruptclimate.html
http://naturalscience.com/ns/cover/cover5.html


--- Bracey Tiede <tiede@pacbell.net> wrote:
> >From Reuters Science News:
> 
> Tropical Future for UK Gardeners as Climate Changes
> Sat Nov 9, 8:45 PM ET
> 
> LONDON (Reuters) - Green-fingered Britons could soon
> be growing bananas and
> avocados instead of lupins and rhododendrons as a
> result of climate change,
> according to leading horticulturists.
> 
> Long-term forecasts on climate change suggest
> British gardeners could face
> Mediterranean weather with hotter summers, droughts
> and warm, wet winters with
> the risk of flooding, the Sunday Times newspaper
> reported.
> 
> Lush lawns, often the pride of suburban gardens,
> will also come under threat,
> according to a new report to be published this week
> from the Royal Horticultural
> Society (RHS) and the National Trust.
> 
> The report's author, Richard Bisgrove from Reading
> University, said the climate
> changes over the next 80 years could threaten some
> native plants, but would also
> give fresh opportunities to gardeners.
> 
> "Southern England will become like Bordeaux...in
> domestic gardens we will see
> more exotic plants -- things like palms, olives and
> peaches."
> 
> The report is based on trends set out in the
> government's UK Climate Impacts
> Programme.
> 
> Cheers,
> Bracey
> San Jose CA
> 


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