looking closely, perhaps it does seem that way. Although there is an influx of wetter summer rain from the middle east coming up into central asia here, not too different from the very light summer rains of otl Mongolia. In fact, Central Asia ittl isn't that far off otl Mongolia climatically...
Well Central Asia seems the closest tornado territory due to the big temperature swings annually.
Side by Side comparison of Prograde and Retrograde simulations, showing a direct comparison of temperature conditions, plus it may help see any potential errors in the prograde baseline.
A...
Molotovsnowman has reduxed Retrograde Earth’s biome map;
OTL for comparison by Lowtuff;
This puts it in more real terms I think.
While I’m busy with my conservative speculative evolution take on a retrograde earth, one could do a hypothetical Long Earth scenario where a virgin Retrofrade...
Would be interesting seeing how Italian politics would evolve in that direction. Or with an even earlier PoD, avoiding selling Corsica to them, allowing a greater Italy with “intact” western borders may reduce or heighten tensions with its western neighbour, or further deincentivise them from...
Here’s a Retrograde temperature speculation gif I made. This is just a weird one I did for more conventional elephant species, like Loxadonta and Elephas, without adaptions to temperate habitats like Palaeoloxodon and Mammut or tundra like mammoths. Temperature range considered "habitable" for...
“I don’t even know who you are.”
“You will”
In all seriousness, the other options like Bakunin or Sverdlov being leaders could be interesting in how it’s executed, especially the former. The latter I can see being similar in principles to Stalin but less paranoid, which may mean less extreme...
To avoid this trope, who are generally regarded as some of the most likely alternatives to succeeding Lenin, and what do people think their rules may have looked like?
Well Molotov’s was the Retrograde redux already shown. Halogen’s have been a series of experimental maps with altering geography to get interesting results.
A new detailed climate key I made measured in multiples of 5 for Kelvin in August and January using study data. For reference, 275K is 1.85C. This is for average monthly temperature in terms of daily mean.
This makes the study data much easier to read to me and gives you a sort of idea of how...
I’m guessing that the partly filled in black is places on the line between 255-262K, given the line there, which honestly is pretty mild compared to the places in black, though I may be wrong. Now the entire Okhost coastline and even Chutokta is above this threshold.
In this world, conditions...
Interesting question. That seems more like cooler global temperatures, but the orientation of the continents would affect how much is temperate vs continental. So it could be a cooler or warmer world, hard to tell. Hothouse worlds tend to have lots of subtropical land at higher latitudes and...
You'd have to ask MolotovJack, but he did say the Prograde simulation simultaneously shows northern Japan as being too mild in winter compared to otl, whereas British Columbia isn't mild enough.
Speaking of mild winter climates in the northern hemisphere. ,
This map with preindustrial...
here’s some study data gone through me, the opposite of Molotov’s northern hemisphere summer temperatures comparison. For this one, black signifies areas with an average January (coolest month in most of the northern hemisphere) temperature at or below -18C or 255K. Left is prograde and right is...
Well, it would be more accurate to say Cwa, as it does have a winter dry season, but it is relatively dry by the standards of that habitat type, which sometimes can be very wet in summer.
One aspect I'm fascinated with regards to alternate or speculative geography is biogeography; ie how would...