Comments on: Making the best of a bad situation: Iceland and climate change http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2008/08/08/making-the-best-of-a-bad-situation-iceland-and-climate-change/ Thu, 09 Feb 2012 22:58:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Karlamanda Bell http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2008/08/08/making-the-best-of-a-bad-situation-iceland-and-climate-change/#comment-18187 Karlamanda Bell Sat, 09 Aug 2008 00:23:13 +0000 http://www.icenews.is/?p=1828#comment-18187 This is a very interesting article on Iceland - it typifies the way greenhouse science can seem contradictory to the public. On the one hand Iceland is warming at the moment changing the kind of plants used in agriculture. On the other hand if enough ice melts changing the salt balance in the water the gulf stream may well stop and the short period of warming can be followed by colder temperatures than now. This is a very difficult concept to get across to the general public that the weather patterns seem to be able to vary widely from one extreme and back again. Thanks fo linking these two issues int he one articles. This is a very interesting article on Iceland – it typifies the way greenhouse science can seem contradictory to the public. On the one hand Iceland is warming at the moment changing the kind of plants used in agriculture. On the other hand if enough ice melts changing the salt balance in the water the gulf stream may well stop and the short period of warming can be followed by colder temperatures than now. This is a very difficult concept to get across to the general public that the weather patterns seem to be able to vary widely from one extreme and back again.

Thanks fo linking these two issues int he one articles.

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