Is Europe Due For a Big Chill?

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.