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Do we have to worry about a shut down of the Gulf Stream? Or an update on the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) and the role of the oceans in climate change.

Cartoon of the thermohaline circulation with the warm water returned in an effective pipe by the Gulf Stream to the subpolar North Atlantic and the Nordic Seas must be revised.. Learn more...

HIGHLIGHTS

Events

• Tuesday, May 13, 2008

  Dr. Ralph Cicerone: "Climate Change and Human Energy Usage: Constraints and Options"

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• Thursday, May 15, 2008

  At-large graduate fellowship applications due

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• Wednesday, May 21, 2008

  WUN seminar: Grant Bigg (U. Sheffield)

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News

• Trouble in paradise: Warming a greater danger to tropical species

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• Climate education and filmmaking: a high school summer camp being offered July 2008.

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