ates this current that warms northern Europe, 
warms the northern Atlantic States of America.
  If this ice melts in Greenland it can shut down the Gulf Current. In 
fact it has done that thousands of years ago. It happened at least once 
before, shut that current down and actually precipitated, and here is 
one of the great ironies, a little ice age in the northern hemisphere. 
That is why the Europeans are terrified of what is happening in 
Greenland today of this ice melting, making the water fresher, po