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Just to set the record straight, though, I am NOT picking on the Y-D Impact theory. I am just saying that the Thermohaline conveyor belt is not - and does not have to be - part of it. It is superfluous to the central concept.
The Thermohaline flow may exist, but as shown - AND AS WOODS HOLE HAS SHOWN IT SINCE THEY POPOUNDED THIS SILLINESS THREE YEARS AGO - is incomplete, and the conclusions they proposed at that time are also wrong.
TravelerDiogenes 3 years ago
(cont'd from the previous post)
The warm water is ALWAYS going to come out of the Gulf of Mexico, and it will ALWAYS flow north driven by the Earh's rotation, and it will ALWAYS be diverted to the east by the Coriolis effect and the shape of the American coastline.
Without the Gulf of Mexico and the flow out of it, no Thermohaline depiction can possibly be correct, since it completely leaves out the MAJOR feature of the North Atlantic currents and heat balance.
Look at the map? It''s wrong.
TravelerDiogenes 3 years ago
(cont'd from the 2nd post below...)
The sinking water in the North Atlantic CANNOT POSSIBLY suck the Gulf Stream north, as Woods Hole postulates. Nothing on Earth can suck ANYTHING from 4,000 miles away, especially when it is not an enclosed tube, but is open on all sides, which would mean closer water would be sucked, if any would be.
...cont'd...
TravelerDiogenes 3 years ago
Wow - something didn't TAKE on my first post. Try again:
The Thermohaline 'conveyor' shown is incorrectly shown.
Notice that the circulation around the Gulf of Mexico is NOT included, completely ignoring that this is where all the heat for Europe comes from, from the GULF STREAM, so named because of that heat it picks up.
The west-flowing ocean current enters and then meanders around the Gulf of Mexico slowly and picks up massive amounts of heat.
...cont'd...
TravelerDiogenes 3 years ago
(cont'd from the previous post)
...and after it leaves the Gulf of Mexico, through the Florida Straight, it is PUSHED north by the rotation of the earth and east by both the shape of the N.A. coast and the Coriolis effect.
This heated water is not going to stop flowing north just because fresh water is there, flowing out of the St Lawrence.
The people at Woods Hole are the main proponents of this silliness, but they say that the sinking cold water SUCKS the warm water north.
...cont'd...
TravelerDiogenes 3 years ago