Seldom surprises come that big... especially when reading Sciene or Finnish epic Kalevala:
The 150th anniversary edition of Finnish National Epic "Kalevala" with a commentary dedicates a whole chapter to the events about sudden changes in the Earth's turning axis in the ancient distant past according to Kalevala. (I always discounted this as a rubbish, but today found this possibility being discussed in Science Magazine as below.) To me this is another possible warning sign of ice sheet land containment failures in the past when the warmed and wet ice sheets started to float on its own melt waters and lost its footing on elevated grounds and fell suddenly into sea. If so, the mooring of Greenland ice is a very important geoengineering consideration as the suppoting sea ice disappears. If you know any other ancient literature which refers to turning of earth axis or anomalies in the length of day, I would be very happy to get references of science magazines and literature as this builds on argument that the warmed ice in Greenland may suddenly slide out like melting snow falls from roof as a sheet rather than melting peacefully into oblivion. Mercy on us, if this Science article is right, we might be in yet another serious trouble if there is coupling of marine losses with the terrestrial ice losses in the nearby Geenland. Source: Science Magazine Authors: Jerry X. Mitrovica, Natalya Gomez, and Peter U. Clark Science 6 February 2009 323: 753 [DOI: 10.1126/science.1166510] Scientists say the collapse of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet would have such profound effects it would shift the planet’s rotation, sending a bulge of water into the Northern Hemisphere. The enormous ice sheet, which many experts believe could collapse as the climate warms, is so heavy that as it melts it “will actually cause the Earth’s rotation axis to shift rather dramatically,” reports a team led by geophysicist Jerry Mitrovica, at the University of Toronto. http://www.canada.com/melt+shift+earth+rotation/1260349/story.html _________________________________________________________________ Got more than one Hotmail account? Save time by linking them together http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/186394591/direct/01/ -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "geoengineering" group. To post to this group, send email to geoengineer...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to geoengineering+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/geoengineering?hl=.
