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1 " For those of us who live in what are called the temperate zones, with their often bitterly cold winters, there are times every January when a little global warming seems pretty attractive. It doesn’t work that way. Warming the Earth will not turn Long Island into Tahiti. One of the most damaging effects of the greenhouse warming is likely to be a significant increase in violent weather, followed by drastic and rapid changes in the climate conditions many living things depend on for their survival. "
― Isaac Asimov , Our Angry Earth: A Ticking Ecological Bomb
2 " The general pattern of water circulation, particularly in the northern hemisphere’s Atlantic Ocean, is fairly well understood. As cold water sinks to the bottom of the sea around the Arctic Ocean, it travels slowly southward along the sea-bottom toward the Equator. Once it reaches the equatorial tropics it is warmed and accordingly rises to the surface, after which it slowly moves northward, in the form of the ocean surface currents mariners have long learned to map, making a complete circuit as the water returns toward the Pole. "
