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Black September, October Surprise
- ER -
10/2/2012 6:16:14 PM
Weird Winter?
- podrock -
10/3/2012 2:51:10 AM
One winter, or one year, proves nothing.
- ER -
10/3/2012 3:02:09 AM
As more and more ice melts, it gets to be a really slippery slope.
- bowser -
10/3/2012 3:16:48 AM
Le Chatellier's Principle.
- ER -
10/3/2012 8:04:05 PM
Agree, disagree, and question.
- johannes -
10/4/2012 12:40:33 AM
Look up "sputtering". That's how gas is lost from a planet with a lot of gravity like earth.
- alcaray -
10/5/2012 8:53:06 PM
Sounds about right. The question is?
- johannes -
10/9/2012 12:04:17 AM
The energy for sputtering comes from the solar wind, not from ambient atmospheric temperature.
- alcaray -
10/9/2012 2:00:58 AM
Look up "Jeans Escape."
- TB -
10/9/2012 12:16:09 AM
Thank you, found it.
- johannes -
10/9/2012 3:18:48 AM
Sorry, Charlie. End times prophecy says nothing about ice melting.
- bowser -
10/3/2012 1:10:55 AM
Depends who you worship. Fimbulwinter precedes Ragnarok.
- alcaray -
10/3/2012 3:11:16 AM
Pagan!
- bowser -
10/6/2012 3:23:03 PM
(My childhood spent with Marvel comics was not wasted!)
- alcaray -
10/3/2012 5:07:45 AM
Darkness
- ER -
10/3/2012 3:31:39 AM
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