RealClimate does a factcheck on a recent Guardian article.

For those of you who like to marginalize the "scientific" value of this site, I'll direct you to comment #12


re. 1 "Ah, you scientists and your....science"

Please draw three things from this article.

1). Real scientists openly disclose their findings, no matter what the potential ramifications.

2). A solid consensus exists and has existed for years now that global warming is happening (Unlike the conveyor belt slowing up in the long term), and that humans are causing a large part of global warming and that we are most likley in deep doo-doo if we don't so something to stop global warming.

3.) Messy scientific studies, like this MOC one, must first be debated, analyzed and tested before a consensus is reached. This is a seemingly messy study (to the public) but is necessesary to reach eventually, hopefully, a consensus on whether the meridonial overturning circulation (MOC, ocean conveyor belt, thermohaline, etc.) is indeed showing long-term slowdown or not.