Re: If all the ice melted...

From: Mike Lorrey (mlorrey@datamann.com)
Date: Sun Jul 01 2001 - 16:47:48 MDT


zeb haradon wrote:
>
> If all the ice melted, would the amount of farmland increase? Would
> Antarctica become habitable?

Siberia and Canada would certainly become prime farmland. I doubt
ANtarctica would really get enough sunlight to be of much use, nor would
the temperature be that much higher. Raising the average temperature
from -40 to -20 doesn't do much for the crops....



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