Reply #7: No, Earth's circulation systems are already dying. [View All]

[Kailassa]

There is no way to know if the Gulf Stream will ever recover from the damage already done to it in the last few years.

Without functioning air and water currents, even though some parts of the earth are having to contend with increased heat and a lack of water, other parts, particularly Europe, will get colder and colder, until they are experiencing a new ice-age.

This has started, and nobody knows how to stop it. It has happened before, and scientists had always thought it must have been a very slow change, but core samples have revealed that the process, once begun, can be disastrously sudden.

Each effect of global warming increases the speed at which the next effect happens, so we are now on a run-away express train that will inevitably kill millions.