Re: Doomsday Scenario.

In article <uJadnXBUSKp4DF_fRVn-rg@xxxxxxxx>, "Dave Gower" <davegow.removethis@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>"Robert" <RB@..> wrote
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>> By the time coal becomes short, in maybe fifty years, the polar caps will
>> have
>> melted, the oceans will have warmed considerably and the atmosphere will
>> be hot
>> and steamy. We will return to conditions somewhat like those of the
>> carboniferous era.
>
>Greenland may have melted, but it is unlikely that the Antartic ice cap will
>have, at least in that time frame. Antartica is so far below freezing now
>(-70 to -80F at the South Pole this time of year), that all a rise in
>average temperatures is likely to do is result in increased precipitation
>and therefore increase the depth of the icecap, at least near the middle.

It's not the ice on the land you should worry about ... it's the sea ice ...
there is a great deal of it :)

That said, my partner was in antarctica a few years back ... and it was
warmer there than in a part of france where friends were at the time :)


Bruce


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