Thermohaline circulation changes: a question of risk assessment
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This May, Bjørn Lomborg’s “Environmental Assessment Institute” published a report [Olsen and Buch, 2004] on the risk of ocean circulation changes in the Atlantic, to coincide with the release of Roland Emmerich’s Hollywood blockbuster The Day after Tomorrow (a film based on a shut-down of the North Atlantic Current). Given its lack of expertise on ocean circulation and climate, the Environmental Assessment Institute commissioned two scientists from the Danish Meteorological Institute to produce the report. Nevertheless, the report is published and the copyright owned by Lomborg’s institute. Admittedly, the somewhat unusual process of gestation and launch for a scientific document made us approach it with some caution.
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