To: neverdem
Antarctica is a desert. I always thought that a slight increase in air temperature would cause greater evaporation from the surrounding oceans and more deposits on the continent itself. Lowering sea levels.
4 posted on
12/20/2006 11:47:44 AM PST by
kinoxi
To: kinoxi
That wouldn't matter. Ice flows under sufficient pressure -- more precipitation in Antarctica would simply push the ice sheets out to sea a bit faster, thus keeping the total size of the ice cap more or less constant.
11 posted on
12/20/2006 12:06:50 PM PST by
steve-b
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To: kinoxi
That would be Boyle's Law that you are alluding to.
16 posted on
12/20/2006 12:41:15 PM PST by
massgopguy
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