Re: OT: Climate Changes

[Luis Angulo <labalou2000@yahoo.com>]

Rick our conversation got cuttoff yesterday sorry my
phones battery went dead:-(
I ll call you later bro,ok?
cheers
Luis
P.S. did u recover from your overdose already?

--- "loop.pool" <looppool@cruzio.com> wrote:

> This is so off topic as to defy rational
> justification
> except that it affects many of the live loopers
> in Western Europe and the British Isles:
> 
> I was talking with Luis Angulo (who is here visiting
> his family
> in San Diego from Northern Europe) and he told me
> that
> they had 3 solid weeks without seeing the sunshine
> in Radolfzell
> (by the Boden Zee).   I had also heard from Andy
> Butler mentioning
> that England was having a particularly severe winter
> this year.
> 
> Anyway,  my wife found this fascinating flash
> demonstration of
> why global warming is having the effect of much
> colder winters
> for Western Europe and the British Isles.
> 
>
http://www.guardian.co.uk/flash/gulf_stream_climate.swf
> 
> The Gulf Stream coming up from the equator actually
> raises the
> air temperature of those regions by an astonishing
> 18 degrees Farhenheit
> and 10 degrees Celsius.
> 
> Researchers have discovered that the circulation of
> the currents have slowed
> a dismaying 30% over the last 12 years due to global
> warming trends.
> 
> Maybe this can lead to a discussion of how weather
> effects our creativity.
> 
> I've often wondered if   Per Boysen, as an example,
> is more or less 
> creative/prolific
> when there is very little sun in the winter or when
> there is a lot of sun in 
> the summer.
> 
> I know I write much, much more in the winter than in
> the summer. 
> 
> 


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