The coming winter - a worry

[merylvingien]

dont worry about it. The end of the world will come 21.12.2012. It is only 15 months.

Well that just bloody typical, 4 days before my birthday, they could have waited till new year!

 

[Erichalfbee]

Panorama. Britain's disappearing wildlife. On now.
More grist to the mill?

 

[trapperman]

Well that just bloody typical, 4 days before my birthday, they could have waited till new year!

open your presents early just incase

 

[rae]

Here is the picture of this current:

Now, what percentage of the Gulf do we think it covers? I'd say about 5%. But let's be generous, let's call it 0.5%. OK with that?

Right, back to the 6 x 10^17 gallons. I've just knocked off a couple of zeros, so the loop current contains about 3 x 10^15 gallons. We're now only have 9 orders of magnitude to deal with. So the viscosity isn't changing.

And from a slightly more believable source, it would appear that the loop current becomes regularly unstable anyway:

http://www.nytimes.com/gwire/2010/0...-destabilizes-lowering-gulf-oil-sp-23004.html

 

[Dishmop]

The end of the world will come 21.12.2012. It is only 15 months.

Do the credit card companies know this?

 

[oliver90owner]

Do the credit card companies know this?

Would they care?

More to the point, are the bookies taking bets on it?

Regards, RAB

 

[Repwoc]

Well, lets wrap some proper maths around it....
1) The volume of the oil spill was about 151 million gallons, which does sound a lot. 1.5x10^6 gallons.

151 million gallons = 1.51x10^8 gallons

The gulf stream moves 30 million cubic metres of water a second. That's 30 million tonnes, about 120 million gallons

4 gallons of water does not weigh a tonne. 1000L (1 cubic metre)= ~220 gallons (imperial), so 30 million cubic metres = ~6600 million gallons.

If you're going to use numbers to support/formulate your arguments, make sure you get them right.