Yes, there were tropical conditions in Montana at one time. Coal deposits in Antarctica. Since plants also suffer from high temps it is interesting to contemplate what the equator was like. I suggest the thermal pump was far more energetic (equator to pole air flow) Your comment re buffering is quite apt IMO.
-Kirk --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Recently there have been many news reports > concerning global warming, some of which have > discussed the melting of huge amounts of glacial ice > from the poles and high mountain ranges. Often, > there is also mention of the fact that the actual > global temperature has risen very little. What I > haven't seen is anyone putting the two together. The > same as in a buffered chemical or physiological > system, I feel that the vast amount of ice in place > on the earth is acting as a buffer. The same way > that external measurements of a buffered chemical > reaction will change very little despite radical > changes within the system, I feel that the measured > average temperature of the earth can be expected to > change relatively little due to the absorption by > the glacial ice of tremendous amounts of heat as it > melts. In addition to all the potential problems > caused by this melting ice on sea level, changes of > sea water salinity, and sea water temperature, one > may expect to see dramatic changes in global > temperature once this buffer is exhausted. Let us > not be mislead by assumptions that the earth might > only see up to ten degrees of change. I don't think > anyone has much of a clue as to the actual amount of > heat that is being produced and absorbed into the > ice. Once the ice is gone, we might really start > cooking around here. > > Derek __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Mail - Easier than ever with enhanced search. Learn more. http://info.mail.yahoo.com/mail_250 _______________________________________________ Biofuel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://wwia.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/biofuel Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuel archives at Infoarchive.net (searchable): http://infoarchive.net/sgroup/biofuel/