Here's something interesting and recent;   
      
   In a recent article in a science publication, it was reported that    
   there is weakening in the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation,   
   which may be raising a lot of speculation about abrupt cooling.   
      
   It is said the last Ice Age wasn't one huge `freeze', but dozens of    
   times in which temperatures abruptly rose and fell, which caused    
   various ecological changes.   
      
   Ice cores from Greenland and Antarctica show that these sudden changes,   
   occurring every 1500 years or so were not synchronized with one another   
   in the two hemispheres; when the Northern would go cold, the Southern would   
   warm, and visa versa. Scientists believe what caused this seesaw effect   
   in changes to a sort of conveyer belt of ocean currents known as the    
   `Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC), which today drive the   
   Gulf Stream. They bring warm surface waters north and take deeper cold   
   waters south. They then weaken suddenly, almost stopping, just before an   
   abrupt climate change is about to occur, according to researchers report    
   in Science. In a matter of decades temperatures in the North went down,   
   while those in the South rose.   
      
   AMOC slowdowns have long been suspected as the cause of the climate swings   
   during the last Ice Age, which ran from around 110,000 years ago, to about   
   15,000 years ago.   
      
   Man's modern recorded history didn't even start back that far (15,000 years).   
      
   The last Ice Age started with rapid climate oscillations the origin of which   
   remain unknown. But were most pronounced during marine isotope stage 3 (MIS3),   
   wh   
   which was the glacial period of 25 to 60 thousand years ago.   
      
   There is other information contained in this article....however it is withheld   
   due to the possibility that it may seen by `some' to be `occult, supernatural   
   or mythological', and, therefore, cannot see the light of day in this echo.   
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