Scary, very scary, undercurrents!

Something that I thought would take a few more decades has happened already. While it is not likely to be permanent at this time it really should make you wonder where we are going to end up.

The gulf stream, the whole reason northern Europe is considered a fairly good farm land and has a whole bunch of people living on it, has for the first time in recorded history shifted to join with the West Greenland current. See the image to get an idea of what has happened.



That red line should be hitting the UK smack dead on.

One of the consequences of global climate change is the melting of the Greenland Ice sheet. This leads to the desalination of the North Atlantic. This leads to the stopping of the Gulf Stream, which leads to a really shitty set of circumstances for almost every western nation as N. America goes desert, and Europe goes cold. As with anything in climate, it isn't quite that simple, but I didn't expect this to happen for a while yet.