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The article examines the outlook for global warming in Europe. Recent findings suggest that the Atlantic Ocean currents that warm Northern Europe are weakening as a result of global warming and may ultimately mean frigid weather for Europe. Global warming is causing more melt-water to stream into the North Atlantic from glaciers and older sea ice, which is lower in salt. Scientists from Britain's National Oceanography Center reported in "Nature" that a component of the oceanic current system that drives the Gulf Stream has slowed by 30 percent since 1992. Climate experts caution against panic.

The article examines the outlook for global warming in Europe. Recent findings suggest that the Atlantic Ocean currents that warm Northern Europe are weakening as a result of global warming and may ultimately mean frigid weather for Europe. Global warming is causing more melt-water to stream into the North Atlantic from glaciers and older sea ice, which is lower in salt. Scientists from Britain's National Oceanography Center reported in "Nature" that a component of the oceanic current system that drives the Gulf Stream has slowed by 30 percent since 1992. Climate experts caution against panic.