Three-toed horses reveal the secret of the Tibetan Plateau uplift

PhysOrg ^ | Tuesday, April 24, 2012 | Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology

[ml/nj]

latitude also has an impact

Please tell me what effect it has? Tibet is around 30 Deg North. Is there more oxygen at 30 Deg north and 10,000 or more feet up?

ML/NJ

[ml/nj]

Wow! Look at all those grasslands!

ML/NJ

[SunkenCiv]

Temperature goes down with latitude or altitude going up.

[SunkenCiv]

[singing] chestnuts roasting on an open fire...

[ml/nj]

Temperature goes down with latitude or altitude going up.

Duh! About 5 Deg F per 1000 feet as I recall. (I used to be a pilot.) Temperature isn't the problem for grass. There's plenty of grass in Florida. The problem for all vegetation is that at some point there just isn't enough CO₂ in the atmosphere for it to grow, Al Gore notwithstanding.

ML/NJ

[RedMDer]

Click the link. The Republic you save may be your own.

[Amberdawn]

Lol! I’m calling PETA...

[SunkenCiv]

The writer of this article said altitude wasn’t diagnostic, which is what you now agree with, but nearly immediately had said was BS.

There is no grass in Antarctica, or above a meandering line along the Arctic Ocean. So, yes, temperature does have an impact. On steep heights the problem is generally, no soil, and the higher one goes, lack of liquid water. There’s nowhere on Earth (above water at least) where the CO2 level falls below where plants can survive.

[upchuck]

Thanks. I thought for a minute somebody had come up with another way of denigrating BC and AD.

[Tucker39]

The title mystifies me. Please explain why or how a rise in elevation relates in some way to the construction of the hoofs of horses.

[SunkenCiv]

Or, you could read more than the title, that might help.

[SunkenCiv]

The fastest way to do that is to insert it into a discussion where it doesn’t belong.

[DuncanWaring]

I ran across an assertion once that moving 300 miles towards the nearer pole is the climatic equivalent of increasing altitude 1000 ft.

Don’t know how true it is.

[Tucker39]

You are absolutely correct. However, I did read it, and concluded that the EVOLUTIONIST writer’s premise was a wordy crock. I agree pretty much with REPLIES #3 and #7.

But thanks for your reply. Better do something about that chip on your shoulder. It’s beginning to cause you to list to port.

[SunkenCiv]

Do something about the chip on your shoulder ere complaining about the imaginary ones you’ve spotted on others’.

[SunkenCiv]