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Ozymandias
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
‘My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!’
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
“Coimhéad fearg fhear na foighde”
Beware of the anger of a patient man.
I never saw a wild thing sorry for itself. A small bird will drop frozen dead from a bough without ever having felt sorry for itself.
In a room where people unanimously maintain a conspiracy of silence, one word of truth sounds like a pistol shot.
Duh, and how do you get ice sheets such as this ?
Well it is called evaporation at the equatorial regions from extreme heat.
This same evaporation forms low pressure cells which migrate north , gradually cooling down and end up offloading all that condensation in northern latitudes.
Simple thermodynamics and weather….
All that extreme buidup of ice comes from precipitation in the form of snow.
You don’t get this without first evaporating the water ! Cold don’t do this, only heat…
Ain’t science neat ?
I guess you’ve never saw laundry getting dry at -30 degree…
As a matter of fact yes I have…How that applies in this case is beyond me though.
Simply was trying to explain in simple terms as to how all that Ice gets there to start with. It does not just magically appear ya know. It has to come from evaporation at lower latitudes to start with to form the low pressure areas which migrate north and dump.
I saw a post recently (can’t find the source) that breathlessly claimed that if you’re 21 you haven’t lived a single month in lower than average temperatures. Duh. On average, Earth is an icebox. Hurray for the Holocene!
More importantly, who knows what the exact temperature of the Earth should be? There’s millions of years of evolution on this planet to show that life can exist in a wide range of atmospheric and temperature conditions. It’s sort of self-aggrandizing to think that the conditions that are incompatible with the dinosaurs, mammoths, and such, yet are quite comfortable for homo sapiens, are the only ones the planet should have.
The temperature it was when the Baby Boomers were in elementary school. Duh.
How about Washington DC? Somehow I can really imagine that place buried in ice, but it’s probably too far south.
Washington D.C. is already buried in something and it’s not ice.