6.Despite its northern latitude, the Norwegian climate is essentially maritime and damp, because it is influenced by the mitigating action of the warm GulfStream, originating from the Gulf of Mexico, which flows up the coast preventing the formation of sea ice.
7.The repercussions of melting glaciers, disruptions in the GulfStream and record heat waves edge toward the apocalyptic: floods, pestilence, hurricanes, droughts—even itchier cases of poison ivy.
10.For example, there was the most pessimistic assessment yet of global warming causing collapse of the GulfStream which perversely would bring a new ice age to Europe.