Re: [Phys-l] earth's rotation

["Larry Woolf" <larry.woolf@ga.com>]

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Denker
Sent: Friday, January 04, 2008 11:51 AM
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Subject: Re: [Phys-l] earth's rotation

> On 01/04/2008 01:52 PM, David Ward wrote:
> ... "What would happen if the Earth rotated from East to West rather
than >  West to East? Would it alter our climate? 

Yes.
Even small changes in the Gulf Stream would give Britain
the climate that Kamchatka now has.  British agriculture
would consist of reindeer herding and not much else.
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Not necessarily.
" The notion that the Gulf Stream is responsible for keeping Europe
anomalously warm turns out to be a myth."
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Larry Woolf
General Atomics