Re: Earth Getting Fatter
Posted by Don In Hollister on August 02, 2002 at 11:10:52:

Hi All. The Ocean Conveyor Belt. I wonder if there is a connection between the two. From the dawn of time, people have suspected powerful forces lurking deep in the oceans from the Greeks' fearsome sea-god Neptune to John Wyndham's submarine aliens in his 1950s novel The Kraken Wakes. But science is once again going one better than science fiction. Researchers are discovering that hidden 'rivers' run through the oceans, and these powerful currents hold the destiny of our planet's climate.