Re: Debian Centre of Mass
On 20 Jul 2001 bounce-debian-curiosa=tillea=rki.de@lists.debian.org wrote:
> Not that I had ever been to either Greenland or Iceland, but I think
> it would be a bit dangerous to extrapolate from Iceland experiences to
> Greenland ones.
For sure, but it is a known fact that you are able to swim in water as
long it is fluid ;-).
> According to a pretty small illustration in a somewhat old atlas of
> mine, the gulf stream does not extend to Greenland. It actually seems to
> bend of at Iceland an disappear to the east.
That´s correct, but see above.
> Incidentally, the line where the average temperature at the surface is
> zero degree Celcius in January goes just below Iceland, meaning that
> the wintertemperature north of that (and thus including Greenland) is
> lower (the atlas is from 1977 so the data may be inaccurate in the case
> of global warming).
The global warming not necessarily means that it will be warmer in the
region we talk about. I recently read an article that global warming
changes the amount of salt in this region which makes the gulf stream
stop. This would have the consequence of a *colder* climate in Europe
because of the global warming - well all is theory but you can´t draw
such linear assumtions on complex systems.
Anyway it must be fun to go swimming with some seals in Grrenland ;-).
Kind regards
Andreas, just back from Iceland without having a bath in the Ocean
because not touching the appropriate beach (just lying
around in hot-spring-heated pools in the highland).
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