Re: If all the ice melted...

From: Dave Sill (extropians@dave.sill.org)
Date: Tue Jul 03 2001 - 19:27:33 MDT


Mike Lorrey <mlorrey@datamann.com> wrote:
> 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....

It also doesn't melt much ice.

-Dave



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