Cob: Cob insulation idea

[Darel Henman]

Amanda Peck wrote:
> 
> Both Japan and England have ocean tempered climates.  Minneapolis does not.

True for the warmer oceans areas.  But, for arctic freezing oceans it
wouldn't temper much in fact the reverse could happen.  Ask an Alaskan
on the coast or an Inuit for their opinion. For the Japanese Islands
near the Sea of Okhotsk, such as the Kuril(s) and Sakhalin and Hokkaido,
they are at arctic conditions.  The freezing winds come out from
Russia's Siberia area, I believe.  Icebergs don't temper the outside
temperature up.

Just as Minneapolis's climate, near the largest lake in the world and
near the five great lakes's, is tempered by the water, northern Japan
gets tempered by the ice burgs and Siberian winds.   I haven't looked
into the North Sea data for the U.K., but I would venture that similar
conditions exist to produce a very cold area.

> 
> Many years ago there was a Thanksgiving skit on National Public Radio (U.S.)
> in which the pilgrims were freezing and miserable in their ship in Plymouth
> harbor. They whined to whoever had thought that New England would be good.
Trivia:
Actually the historic records indicate that the Pilgrims, only about 35
people in all, of the  150 passengers, are reported to have tricked or
mutinied the ship and forced or connived to have it land where it did. 
The normal people were scheduled to down south further, to a good job in
the tabaco areas. That's why they were, not whining but, justifiably
pissed off.

> That person replied, "how was I to know?  This is the same latitude as Sunny
> Italy, where we send people to recuperate from the cold in winter."  I had
> to look it up.  True.  Maybe Tuscany, but still true.  Of course Italy's
> climate is tempered by a relatively shallow body of water, lots of sun.
Interesting.
Lots of sun and shallow water and not many cold winds.  Of course
Hannibal crossing the freezing mountains in northern Italy would laugh
if you told him that all of Italy was warm.

Darel