This paper is 5 years old but I just happened across it and have been talking it up to like four different friend groups because it’s so fun. I particularly enjoyed the retrograde klimarübe (you know, the rutabaga that represents an idealized continent for climate delineation purposes … you know).
Mikolajewicz et al. (2018): “The climate of a retrograde rotating Earth” – https://esd.copernicus.org/articles/9/1191/2018/
@vruba oh i love this! only read the abstract but the phytoplankton note it ends with the perfect weird side effect i’d expect