On 20/03/2014 20:12, Alastair McDonald wrote:
No, we live in the Northern Hemisphere, where the Arctic acts as the main
air conditioner. Without the ice, we will swelter or bake :-(


Eocene!

The Eocene-Optimum: When the earth was ice free and life was abundant
from the equator to the poles in both the oceans and land. Nothing
locked up with permafrost or ice; broad-leaf deciduous forest growing to
the Arctic Circle.

Despite CO2 well above today's levels, there was no nasty ocean
acidification and corel reefs flourished in a far greater extent than
they do today.......

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Nick G
Otter Valley, Devon
20 m amsl
http://www.ottervalley.co.uk