[mpol]

You have been downvoted, but it is a good question. Hopefully it was asked in good faith ;)

Since around the 1970s, the North Sea became a few degrees warmer. Fisherman more regularly find fish and other creatures that used to be only down in France or even more south. As far as I know, we don't really know what caused this trend of the gulf stream going more up north. For all we know, it might switch back and we get the climate of Canada; winter from September until April.

Now we find out that same gulf stream is slowing down. We did not predict that and don't really know why it happens and what the consequences will be.

By the way, inside the country, water coming in from more central Europe is coming in faster in winter, causing problems, while in summer not much is coming in, causing more draught. Germany and Belgium are not prepared for this. A few years ago many people died when rivers overflowed.

[tmikaeld]

> Now we find out that same gulf stream is slowing down.

From what I've read so far, we could get a nordic ice-age, because we're so dependent on that hot water and air.

[the_third_wave]

> Hopefully it was asked in good faith ;)

In what way could this question be asked in bad faith?

[mpol]

There do exist people (even on the internet) who ask similar questions about climate change, who prefer to attribute it to all kind of other causes, and deviate or deny that human activities create climate change. I do know that wasn't part of the question, so I can only guess and hope.

[zaik]

The only reason "values corrected for anomalies that are not an effect of human involvement" would be interesting is to find out whether the effect of human involvement is significant or not. It is a valid question, but we already know the answer, so asking OP to essentially re-do a huge amount of climate science comes off as disingenuous.