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[Nick Taylor]

Apparently it stopped completly for 10 days in 2004

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2006/oct/27/science.climatechange

"We'd never seen anything like that before and we don't understand it. 
We didn't know it could happen," said Harry Bryden, at the National 
Oceanography Centre, in Southampton.

I know how he feels, and I'm not even a climatologist.


> At present, most available data show that Gulf Stream flow was stable over
> the past 40 years. One report, based on a snapshot survey, suggested that
> the deep return flow has weakened by 30% since 1957, which would imply a
> weakening in the North Atlantic Deep Water production. However, this should
> have caused a temperature drop of several degrees in northwest Europe, which
> has not been observed. It was later discovered, using the first
> cross-Atlantic array of moored current meters, that variations within one
> year were just as large. At least part of the apparent weakening of the Gulf
> Stream (if real) may be cyclical and connected to recent positive values
> of North Atlantic Oscillation.
> 
> Arguments have never been the same since wikipedia.