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Article: Do warming oceans Portend an Ice Age?(Climate)
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- USA TODAY
- Article date:
- August 1, 2004
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It has been shown for the first time that the deep-ocean circulation system of the North Atlantic, which controls ice-age cycles of cold and warm periods in the Northern Hemisphere, is integrally coupled to salinity levels in the Caribbean Sea. University of California, Davis, research reinforces concerns that global warming, by melting the glacial ice of Greenland, quickly and profoundly could change salinity and temperatures in the North Atlantic Ocean. One consequence might be much colder weather in Northern Europe and Britain and perhaps even in eastern Canada and in the Northeast region of the U.S.
During Earth's warm periods, like the present one, surface ...