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EM I repeat: plate tectonics has nothing to do with climate. If you know about plate tectonics you would not have made such an obvious error. Perhaps you should revise your Plate Tectonics Ladybird book.
Feb 17, 2018 at 11:41 AM | Supertroll
Unless extensions of the Pacific Rim, Mid Atlantic Ridge etc are causing localised Arctic and Antarctic warming that Climate Scientists have mistakenly attributed to CO2.
golf charlie
Yep @Tomo
obvious priority that should start soon.
YP : York Uni scientist claims to have found fungus enzymes that will break down wood into convenient fuel.
Is that oil/gas from wood ?
stewgreen
stewgreen
Obvious I know - but ... I look forward to The Balearic Islands banning fossil fueled ferries and aircraft
tomo
Fridays Times : Balearic's politicians did a big press conference about the future of electricity in Ibiza/Majorca
"We will go from 3% renewables to 100% by 2050
And all car hire will be electric by 2035 and sales of new non electrics banned"
Hmm they already don't have enough homegrown leccy : Their mix is 3% renewables, 27% imports and 70% fossil fuels
They plan to close the main coal power plant in 2025
Yeh... A lot of off their heads on drugs people in the Balearics.
..You guys have seen that the Portuguese newspapers are reporting that Corbyn's new best friend the Portuguese homeless dead man, is actually an Angolan, who'd illegally re-entered after being deported twice, once after a sex attack conviction
stewgreen
Anyone who sees continental drift as a relevant control knob may have an exaggerated idea of the powers of mankind.
rhoda
EM I repeat: plate tectonics has nothing to do with climate. If you know about plate tectonics you would not have made such an obvious error. Perhaps you should revise your Plate Tectonics Ladybird book.
Supertroll
Supertroll
Stop nitpicking. I know how plate tectonics works, but I am not going to write a dissertation here.
I trust I have made the basic point that there are times when plate tectonics/ plate configurations/ continental distribution favours permanent ice formation at the poles, and times when it does not .
Perhaps you should discuss this with your friend at UEA.
Entropic man
BTW EM. Plates are not continents: some continents consist of parts of several plates, whereas other plates have no continent riding upon them.
Supertroll
EM. You confuse "plate tectonics" - the mechanism by which tectonic plates move with configurations of plates today and those of the past.
Supertroll
stewgreen
Obvious I know - but ... I look forward to The Balearic Islands banning fossil fueled ferries and aircraft
Feb 17, 2018 at 1:24 PM | tomo
They get freshwater piped from mainland Spain. Electricity should be no problem.
Solar power should not be a problem in the Balearics, nor should desalination of seawater, using solar power, but...