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Chris -- 2018-04-11
Albedo and albino come from the same proto-Indoeuropean root word meaning “white”. Albedo refers to the reflectivity of a surface, which has a role in models of the global climate system. Albino refers to an unusual lack of pigmentation in animals, including humans. So the global albino effect due to reflection of sunlight from ice and sand makes some sense.
Polar ice cap melting
raise sea levels (by itself it won’t), but rather, that losing them will reduce the earth’s albino, or reflectivity, which would accelerate the warming
http://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/07/29 … -a-Reality
Climate change
The models involve, of course, other causes besides the greenhouse effect, such as changes in Earth’s albino.
(http://www.faithfreedom.org/forum/viewt … bad597ca32)
Crisis? What crisis?
If you study the geologic records it’s always warmest right before an ice age.
That’s quite possibly from an albino effect: hot weather at the equator and hotter weather at in the more central latitudes means more desertification and deforestation
(http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/ind … 28784.html)
Clearly a slip:
Climate change feedbacks
Arid lands are significant determinants of the earth’s albino and thus of its global radiation balance. Albedo and spectral characteristics of the surface are influenced …
(http://www.icsu-scope.org/downloadpubs/ … 5-ch05.pdf)
Transcription error (I forget the name for these):
Al Gore speaks about climate crisis
“So, even if a future planetary ‘albino effect’ shields us from the sun, the CO2 will still poison the planet and lose its habitability for us.”
(http://www.flickr.com/photos/jurvetson/288756873/)
From Africa, which is appropriate given that Spanish and Portuguese visitors coined the word “albino” upon meeting unpigmented Africans.
Local climate
The albino effect, particularly in winter when the sun shines all day long with dry winds, is high and frosts occur at night in an otherwise sub-tropical region.
(http://www.barotseland.com/missionstatement1.pdf)
Last edited by David Bird (2009-10-19 12:49:57)
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