Potential Gulf Stream Collapse

[jamesdeluxe]

One of the doomsday climate scenarios is that melting continental ice shuts down the Gulf Stream, resulting in western Europe having the same climatology as the similar latitudes in Canada. This occurred regularly at the end of big ice ages when the North American continental ice released into the Atlantic via the St. Lawrence River. Skeptics point out that the volume of the North American continental ice was vastly greater than what's in Greenland.

Given what this article claims, can we assume that a gulf stream collapse would be good news for ski areas in Europe and its disappearing glaciers?


"It would shift the tropical rainfall belt on which many millions of people rely to grow their food, plunge western Europe into extreme cold winters and summer droughts, and add 50cm to already rising sea levels."