The Good Men Project Become a Premium Member We have pioneered the largest worldwide conversation about what it means to be a good man in the 21st century. Your support of our work is inspiring and invaluable. Weakening Gulf Stream May Disrupt World Weather The Gulf Stream is growing feebler, the Arctic seas are gaining fresh water. Together they could affect the world’s weather. By Tim Radford The Atlantic Conveyer, otherwise the Gulf Stream − that great flow of surface water pouring northwards that overturns in the Arctic and heads south again at great depth − is now weaker than at any point in the last 1,000 years, European scientists report.