> What's it going to do for the Arctic?
"Global Warming", (renamed to the less polarizing "Climate Change") is
not uniform. A one degree global change is not one degree everywhere.
It's no change in some places and 10 degrees in others. The greatest
change is happening mostly in the arctic regions of the Northern
Hemisphere. Changes are not linear, but occur in major steps with
catastrophic events.
Also, it matters a lot where the things are located. Let's take my
adopted home city of Denver, Colorado, as an example. While cities can
and do occur everywhere, the specific location of Denver may have a
greater impact on climate change in North America than any other city
of any size here. Why? because of the location at the base of the
Front Range of the Rockies has altered the flow of the Chinook winds.
This has effected the weather over the much of the states of Kansas,
Nebraska and half of Iowa. By reducing the strength or even the
occurrence of these descending winds, we have changed the very nature
of how late winter and early spring effects the midwest. Between
Colorado Springs and Denver, up to 4 million square miles of land are
affected.
That's 4 million square miles of land DIRECTLY affected. We don't even
know or understand the ripple effect of this and how it might move the
gulf moisture flow around.
Anyway, I'd bet it doesn't matter because, just like politicians, we
will vote for the evils and let the next generation worry about the
fallout.
AG
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