CONLANG Digest - 18 May 2008 to 19 May 2008 (#2008-137)

On Mon, 2008-05-19 ROGER MILLS wrote:

> I still don't know how the slightly greater axial tilt (27+ degrees vs. our
> 23.5 degrees) affects weather patterns.........That part wasn't included in
> the WB site :-(
The four degrees won't do very much, but generally increasing the axial
inclination

1. Increases savanna at the expense of equatorial rain-forest

2. Increases sub-tropical forest (e.g. as in California / Spain and
Carolina / China) at the expense of the hot deserts.

I seem to remember you can get rid of deserts by increasing tilt to
about 40 degrees. If you do much planet building (!) have a look at

http://www.cix.co.uk/~morven/worldkit/index.html

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