There are three posts at http://mustelid.blogspot.com/search?q=amplification which touch on this. The last one is the best.
Note that you have repeated the common myth, by saying "poles" in the plural. The Antarctic isn't warming terribly fast, nor is is "supposed" to, in the sense of GCM predictions. -W. On 26/11/2007, Zeke Hausfather <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > What exactly is the mechanism that causes the poles to warm faster > than the tropics as a result of climate change? Is it simply the lack > of transpiration (due to the lack of vegetative matter) limiting > latent heat transfer? Or is there actually greater "forcing" in the > arctic due to some mechanism? > > Inquiring minds want to know. > > Zeke Hausfather > http://yaleclimatemediaforum.org/ > > > -- William M. Connolley | www.wmconnolley.org.uk | 07985 935400 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups Global Change ("globalchange") newsgroup. Global Change is a public, moderated venue for discussion of science, technology, economics and policy dimensions of global environmental change. Posts will be admitted to the list if and only if any moderator finds the submission to be constructive and/or interesting, on topic, and not gratuitously rude. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/globalchange -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
