The Gulf Stream plays a significant role in maintaining the climate of the US East Coast and Western Europe. “We conclude with a high degree of confidence that Gulf Stream transport has indeed slowed by about 4% in the past 40 years.” The full study is Here

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          That’s just Germany. I don’t think the anti-nuclear sentiment is that popular elsewhere. Finland just started a new reactor, granted we began bulding it already back in 2005.

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          France is still gangster with it. But the rest of Europe pretends that it’s greener to buy oil from Russia.

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          It’s not green enough for the ecofascists who’d rather have coal than nuclear, but we still have nuclear.

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        Nuclear plants need water to cool. This would also make Western Europe drier.