Old meme: Earth has a fever. New meme: "Are we freezing because of global warming?"

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Old meme: Earth has a fever. New meme: "Are we freezing because of global warming?": "Old meme, ala Al Gore:

New meme, appropriately via memeorandum: Are we freezing because of global warming?

For six years, a team at Southampton University has been using instruments, strung across the Atlantic from the Bahamas to north Africa, to monitor the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation. This is the massive system of currents, including the Gulf Stream, that carries a mind-boggling 1.3 petawatts of heat – that's 1,300,000,000,000,000 watts – northwards in its warm upper waters.

The Gulf Stream relies on the fact that as the water loses its heat in the north Atlantic, it cools, sinks and flows back to the south. The fear has been that, as the planet warms, melting Arctic ice will weaken these currents, plunging Europe into the cooler.

You get the feeling that these guys have watched The Day After Tomorrow far too many times.

More from YID With LID and Right Wing News. Want to know what the next meme will be? Global warming caused by... racism. It already causes obesity among black women, so what the heck?

UPDATE: More alarmism: Sea Level Could Rise in South, Fall in North. That's right folks, global warming is causing the Earth to lose it's shape! Once a sphere, now an ellipsoid, and someday a spaghetti noodle. All due to racism.

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