From: John Cuccia 

On Sun, 18 Feb 2007 22:04:41 -0500, "Geo."  wrote:

>"Monte Davis"  wrote in message
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>
>> Or governors, or sheet anchors, or whatever metaphor you like for
>> "smoothing out extreme variation."
>
>Interesting. I wonder how much energy it takes to convert say the northern
>ice sheet to water?

Uh, 80 cal/g?

> (what will absorb that energy once the ice melts)

The water that was once ice.

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