| Mark Probert 2005-09-28, 9:42 am |
| Clinton wrote:
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> Well maybe the gradient is steeper than I realized. Obviously there
> is going to be a temperature gradient, which is highest at the
> gulf stream and then decreases until it flattens out some distance
> away. However, even if though it is a lot colder away from the Gulf
> stream the local temperature could also increase some , I.E you would
> think that with global warming the temperature near the bouy could be
> 45 instead of 43. So Whereever these hurricanes form then if there is
> any shift in these currents and the temperature gradients they produce
> from normal, that could supply more energy
> than normal. And I would suspect that just a few degrees average
> difference could tranlate to a lot of energy although I don't really
> know because I haven't studied the issue.
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> And, you probably know better than me, maybe the Gulf stream itself
> is shifting more during the hurricane season due to GW, periodically
> creating good conditions for the formation of Hurricanes. Obviously the
> gulf has to be receiving energy from
> somewhere, otherwise it would reach absolute zero, and these
> sources of energy could change significantly due to global warming.
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I visit a Coast Guard station fairly regularly and they have some superb
equipment and maps. I have not seen any significant shift in the Gulf
Stream. I will watch out for its fall shift to be further out in the
Atlantic and see when that comes.
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