File talk:Glacier Mass Balance Map.png

Nice pic, very helpful to illustrate the discussion. But a couple of comments:

It looks like the size of melt goes with *radius* of circle; people often/usually use area in situations like this, since thats what you "see"
It does go as radius. I tried making melt proportional to area, but in my opinion it is too cluttered that way. Using radius is a compromise in order to accommodate the large amount of data and still be able to pick out different measurements. Dragons flight 22:00, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
It would be prettier if the scale bar fitted the width of the map.
Respectfully, I disagree. Dragons flight 22:00, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
If the NZ dot sticks out, this could be partly cured by shifting the central longitude
What kind of Brit, are you? Selling out the prime meridian like that.

Really though, I like the composition as is. Dragons flight 22:00, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]
Being trivially picky, the edges of the map leave a tiny cleft at the corners
I know. Dragons flight 22:00, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

William M. Connolley 21:37, 4 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Australia

"Africa has only a handful of glaciers, whereas continental Australia has none."

Not sure if you mean that none are sampled, or that there are none. Actually, continental Australia still has three glaciers, but won't for very much longer... --Glen Fergus 08:36, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Okay, who's bright idea was it to define the island of Papua New Guinea as part of the Australian continent? I removed "continental" from the description. Dragons flight 14:22, 23 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Geologically and biogeographically NG and Aus are one landmass. Same tectonic plate, common continental shelf, same animal groups, same plant groups, even same indigenous people (not quite, but close). They were one landmass just 13kyr ago, and were connected for most of the preceding 2Myr. It may be more logical to leave the continent reference and note the fragmentary glacier remnants. They will disappear inside 10 years, making this the first ice-free continent since at least the Eemian, perhaps much longer. An event of some note in earth's geological history... Glen Fergus 02:15, 24 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]