How important is the Gulf stream? (climate, ice, America, North)

[internat]

Read http://www.americanscientist.org/tem...true&print=yes

[Jammie]

Interesting. I guess it makes you wonder what else will turn out to be a "myth" that we've been told about the weather and the climates. It seems that every year they are making such progress and have such uptown instruments that several things may not be as we were taught they were.

[Merlander]

Originally Posted by internat

Read http://www.americanscientist.org/tem...true&print=yes

I guess this means that if that enormous chunk of Greenland ice slides into the North Atlantic and disrupts the Gulf Stream, Europe won't be plunged into a new ice age afterall?