The Gulf Stream plays a significant role in maintaining the climate of the US East Coast and Western Europe. "We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years." The full study is Here
the EU will cave to any Russian demands if it gets a lot colder in Europe. they wont have any other choice.
"Am I a joke to you?" - Nuclear power in Europe.
Nuclear plants need water to cool. This would also make Western Europe drier.
they still have it? huh
That's just Germany. I don't think the anti-nuclear sentiment is that popular elsewhere. Finland just started a new reactor, granted we began bulding it already back in 2005.
France is still gangster with it. But the rest of Europe pretends that it's greener to buy oil from Russia.
It's not green enough for the ecofascists who'd rather have coal than nuclear, but we still have nuclear.