On Wed, Dec 10, 2008 at 08:37:54AM -0500, Robert G. Brown wrote: > On Wed, 10 Dec 2008, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > >> And I am sure Iceland would find it much easier to do the machine room >> cooling than say Spain or the Southern USA > ..... > > In the meantime, the advent of the overdue ice age will... ----
And in many of the 'global warming' reserch groups are those that are looking at 'anoxic' ocean regons in the ocean as bad side effects of global warming. In a geologic perspective it is exactly the environment that sequestered so much carbon as coal. These regions and processes may be critical in keeping the lid on CO2 in the atmosphere. As for the north polar cap it would be interesting to model the warm water flow of the Japan Current as it encounters the Bering Strait. Only 53 Miles wide the warm water flow change into the artic with less than a meter rise in the sea level would be large (%age) and have a butterfly effect on the artic. On the converse, a probject to place a meter+ thick gravel flow barrier would be an engineering project akin to a railroad ballast 53 miles long (easy). With GPS locators dredge/ fill/ rock could be placed with precision to this end and PERHAPS reverse the shrinking of the artic ice sheet and increase the albedo of the earth and perhaps restoring the status quo in this regard. OK grosly simplified but there are not many environmental pinch points with as much global leverage. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kuroshio Others are thinking about this. But are they able to modeling it? http://psc.apl.washington.edu/HLD/Bstrait/bstrait.html -- T o m M i t c h e l l Found me a new hat, now what? PS: the critical point that the Bering Strait might play here was first expressed to me by Ed McCullough then dean of Geology at the University of Arizona c. 1969. _______________________________________________ Beowulf mailing list, Beowulf@beowulf.org To change your subscription (digest mode or unsubscribe) visit http://www.beowulf.org/mailman/listinfo/beowulf
