Re: Whoops! The Atlantic Makes Trump Look EPIC In Cover Intended as a Smear

On Mon, 30 Sep 2024 18:15:01 +0000, quadibloc <quadibloc@gmail.com>
wrote:

On Sun, 29 Sep 2024 23:48:55 +0000, Peter Fairbrother wrote:
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Oh, and the Gobi is a cold desert. With ice fields and stuff.

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Really? Maybe parts of it, those at very high latitudes, are. But
I thought a lot of it was more like the Sahara or Death Valley,
with the usual temperatures we associate with deserts.
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But I see that I'm mistaken. While most of it is not covered by
ice and snow, like other cold deserts, it is still considered to
be a cold desert. Nearly all of it is at a high latitude, and
it is close to Siberia, after all.

That's why two types of camels exist: one for hot deserts, one for
cold deserts. The number of humps is the clue as to which you are
looking at, when you are looking at a camel. Or so I have been told.

Some of the earlier works (mostly 19th century) appear to use "desert"
for any area that nobody lives in -- regardless of how much plant life
it may have.
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