On Jun 24, 2008, at 1:19 PM, Robin van Spaandonk wrote:
In reply to Horace Heffner's message of Tue, 24 Jun 2008 11:15:27
-0800:
Hi,
If the temperature at the poles remains low enough for most of the
additional
precipitation to fall as snow, then the world may become top heavy
and fall over
(i.e. "precipitate" a pole shift).
Indeed, this could easily happen, beginning with mountainous regions.
It is difficult to predict what will happen when a dynamic system
moves into chaos. Even now, many mountainous regions near the coast
of Alaska typically obtain more than 10 feet of snow in a season.
This kind of heavy snow fall is one of the reasons some glaciers now
go "rogue", flowing at more than 100 times normal speed. As the seas
warm up and ice melts, there will be a lot more precipitation, even
in winter, especially in mountainous regions. As I speak, I see snow
capped peaks that were clear by this time of year when I moved to
Palmer 20 years ago. If a significant portion of land is snow
covered year round the balance toward at least a brief glacial age
will be tipped. I think it is an open question as to whether
greenhouse gas release due to global sea temperature change will
overtake glaciation this time around.
Best regards,
Horace Heffner
http://www.mtaonline.net/~hheffner/
