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• Charlie Stross commented on Sitrep
  Scotland, minus the Gulf Stream, would be around 10 degrees celsius colder overall. We're talking Scandinavian temperatures here, and not the southern cities like Oslo or Copenhagen at that. Seriously, I'm sitting in an office in Edinburgh in late November, nearly a hundred kilometres north of Moscow, and there's no snow on the ground!...
• ndgmtlcd commented on Sitrep
  In my terms you're actually North of Waskaganish: http://www.waskaganish.ca/ And boy, that place is way colder than any part of Scotland, or even Uppsala, the Northernmost Swedish town which I have had the opportunity to visit....
• Stuart_in_Austin commented on Sitrep
  Might the Russian Empire have developed differently if mammoths had been available to them? How might the course of the Crimean war differed?...
• paws4thot commented on Sitrep
  60 Para 2 - I'm not sure how war mammals would have helped against economic warfare. Sidebar - This means that economic warfare was invented before economics!...
• Ross Smith commented on Sitrep
  Alas for the AH romanticists, I suspect war mammoths would have done about as much to save Scotland (or the Russian Empire and/or USSR) as their African cousins did to save Carthage....