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Re: amazing weather photo
prague 2010-Jan-09 11:07:00
As I understand, that is definitely *not* how it should look. The Gulf Stream has currently taken a holiday, and this is what England would look like if it was not blessed with the Gulf Stream. Check the latitude of London - it's on the same latitude as some other VERY COLD places ;-) but as we know it's historically not a snowy place - rain, yes...
It has even been proposed that blond hair / blue eyes in humans comes from this part of the world (baltic/north sea area of europe) - it's the only place where it can get so dark in the winter, yet still be suitable for agriculture - due to the gulf stream. No other place in the world is like that. When humans switched to agriculture, their ingestion of vitamin D went WAY down in this part of the world, which made their skin pale. In other parts of the world they got enough vitamin D to stay dark.
You can google this theory - I read about it a few weeks ago. I'm pretty sure I summarized it mostly correctly. Very interesting whether or not it's true.
cheers,
Jeffrey
--- In #removed#, Erik Krause <erik.krause@...> wrote:
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> Am 09.01.2010 02:08, schrieb Don Bain:
> > Glad I am in California:-)
> >
> > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8447023.stm
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> Actually that's like it should look. Apparently we are not used to a
> winter anymore like it was usual 20 or 30 years ago...
>
> Seems like global warming is more of a blessing than a curse for the
> modern world ;-)
>
> --
> Erik Krause
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