The world on a different tilt

[The Mists Of Time]

What if the Earth's axis was tilted on a different angle than in OTL? Or wat if even thought it was still on the same angle it is on in OTL, the north and south poles are at different locations than in OTL?

For example, what if Antarctica was in a very temperate climate, say in about the same north/south lattitude as say the middle of South America is now?

Having the varoius continents and countries in different north/south lattitudes and even different east/west longitudes than in OTL, how would that have changed history., what would our world and history be like if the lattitudes and lonitudes of the various continents and countries had been different?

[DominusNovus]

http://www.worlddreambank.org/T/TILT.HTM

No, don't thank me, just send money.

[Straha]

Someone REALLY needs to make maps for shiveria/jaredia

[The Mists Of Time]

I just had to add that site to my favorites list.

[Straha]

Have you read the futures section yet?

[Tom Veil]

I have a map on my office computer of "The Dawn of Civilization on Turnovia". I'll upload it in about 10 hours.

[Rick Robinson]

I wrote a sim program a few years ago to test changes to axial tilt, and also to see what would happen if Earth had a relatively eccentric orbit. The model was crude, and I'm no planetologist, but the results for a 45 deg tilt were interesting. The poles were warmer on average than the equator - plunging far below freezing in winter, of course, but REALLY hot in summer, when the sun hangs high in the sky for several months.

My guess (which goes beyond what the model could show) is that a tremendous storm system would develop around the summer pole, due to intense evaporation from high-latitude seas. The cloud buildup might moderate surface temperatures, but the surface would still get extremely hot (and humid), unlikely to be human-habitable, even though the annual average temperature looked livable.

The equator is cooler than the mid-latitudes, and has two full seasonal cycles each year, due to the sun moving so far to the north and south.

Unlike OTL Earth, where the two hemispheres have semi-independent circulation patterns, on a highly tilted earth the whole atmosphere would probably be involved in one circulation system (through probably with multiple bands) transferring heat from the summer pole toward the winter pole.

-- Rick

[Keenir]

this is cool.

[HelloLegend]

What if the Earth's axis was tilted on a different angle than in OTL? Or wat if even thought it was still on the same angle it is on in OTL, the north and south poles are at different locations than in OTL?

For example, what if Antarctica was in a very temperate climate, say in about the same north/south lattitude as say the middle of South America is now?

Having the varoius continents and countries in different north/south lattitudes and even different east/west longitudes than in OTL, how would that have changed history., what would our world and history be like if the lattitudes and lonitudes of the various continents and countries had been different?

I have often wondered what an inverse jet steam would have an effect on the world? For example, Arizona and New Mexico might no longer be a desert since the Riverside Mountain doesn't block the rain from coming, eh?

[Smaug]

Seems to me that this would require some sorta Super-Puter to even speculate on this. JMO, but every tweak you put wherever, will cause a mess somewhere else. Rather like the Eastern Pacific getting an El Nino, with the rains that come with it, And Africa suffering a drought.

I like rain in Cali, but it always happens in wierdio proportions, and than animals in Africa die........ Mother Nature is a fickle bitch....Just sayin