Hmmm... Quasigeostrophy may be in luck

Jan 03, 2008 13:29

55 million years ago, the Earth got heated up. While the article has many interesting little points in it ( including the apparent chain reaction effects which so many people currently dismiss), I found the following excerpt most interesting:
"The group of researchers have also previously shown that tropical algae migrated north in to the Arctic ( Read more... )

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roguepuppet January 3 2008, 19:01:19 UTC
ok-- so I know you are doing something with tropical weather... clarify for me please...

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roguepuppet January 3 2008, 19:27:29 UTC
hmmm interesting. I never realized that rain in the tropics was never ice at high altitudes... zoinks.
What I phrased badly and what I originally was thinking was that if eventually MUCH of the earth is covered in tropical type climate, then what you are learning will apply nearly globally- rather than just near the equator.
It does, however, eliminate the excuse for cool travel on your part ;-)

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vcmorris January 3 2008, 21:31:55 UTC
Watched a very interesting, and long, program on the history channel a couple weeks back about the theories behind the creation of the universe and how one theory could be both right and wrong at the same time. As technology developed, the wrong stuff was discarded, the right stuff was moved up to form new theories which in turn were both right and wrong and etc. over the course of many hundreds of years of human scientific understanding ( ... )

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