Martin in Broda: Winter - Garten II

Donnerstag, 7. Januar 2010

Winter - Garten II

5 Kommentare:

Walter A. Aue hat gesagt…: Jetzt nur noch schnell den Golfstrum abdrehen und all der wunderschoene norddeutsche Schnee wuerde sich bis mindestens Mai erhalten!; 8. Januar 2010 um 03:11
MartininBroda hat gesagt…: Davon bitte ich denn doch Abstand zu nehmen, ich schätze unseren Golfstrom nämlich sehr und das Schneeschaufeln deutlich weniger.; 8. Januar 2010 um 07:27
Mr. Urs hat gesagt…: Und was hat es mit der Mütze auf dem Stab auf sich?; 8. Januar 2010 um 16:04
MartininBroda hat gesagt…: Am Ende des Stabes hängt das Schaufelblech und da ich Mützen eigentlich gar nicht mag und nur im Notfall aufsetze, hatte ich nach getaner Arbeit und leicht erwärmt das Ding auf der Schneeschaufel vorübergehend abgelegt.; 8. Januar 2010 um 16:38
Walter A. Aue hat gesagt…: Well, yea, Martin, but don't be so EGOTISTIC, for heaven's sake!

Consider the good that would arise from turning off the Gulf Stream!

(Technically, of course, the Gulf Stream could not be "turned off" per se. What we'll have to do - with the help of a few strategically placed high-yield hydrogen bombs - is to "switch" the Gulf and Labrador Streams (they are within a few miles off our coast here, where the hydrodynamic decisions are made).

Briefly, the Gulf Stream would keep going up the American East Coast, through the Labrador and then the Baffin Basins. It would, after warming Nova Scotia and Neuwfoundland, start warming the High Arctic, Baffin Island, etc.

(Additional advantage: That would push the Arctic waters plus Titanic icebergs, toward the East.)

What was one the "Labrador Stream" would now flow (warmer) north of Greenland (green again!) and Iceland (they need help right now, anyway!) and then turn South between Iceland and Scotland, then down the Irish coast, returning to the Gulf of Mexico via the Azores (the historic "Columbus Route")

[Note that the Arctic near Canada's Territories would now be ice-free and the fabled North-West Passage open to international shipping and US oil exploration!]

Taking into account latitudes, my back-of-the-envelope calculation suggests an average temperature rise for Nova Scotia of at least 10 to 15 C: Palm trees on St. Margaret's Bay! The corresponding numbers for Europe - whose temperatures are now elevated above world average due to the Gulf Stream by some 5-10 C - would decrease by 15 to 20 C.

(Of course we would have to crunch the numbers carefully beforehand, so the terraforming bombs could be placed at hydrodynamically optimized points.)

Compared to these marvellous advantages - a large leap for Mankind! - what does it matter, Martin, that your back hurts from shoveling snow? For that some Ibuprofen and a cat skin would do just fine!

PS: One of your blogger friends - see above - could do the calculation better than I - ask him to do so, please! - just to confirm the scientific soundness of my efforts for this planet...; 8. Januar 2010 um 17:38

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