Louisiana deep oil drilling disaster

[Helen Reyes]

Just a random thought here:

If you put vegetable oil or animal fat in a soup while it is being prepared, the oil floats to the surface and keeps heat from escaping, because the water doesn't evaporate as fast and the oil forms a sort of seal.

If you follow the Gulf Stream past Cape Hatteras, past Findhorn Institute in Scotland and all the way up, it hits the arctic sea ice somewhere between Norway and Greenland. It would hit the arctic ice, that is, if the normal mechanism of heat transfer were disturbed.