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Old 02-08-2010, 12:05 PM
Wes Tausend Wes Tausend is offline
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Normally, the oceanic evaporation on earth occurs at a steady state as some heat from the Sun stays and some is radiated away. That means that we always have the same overall rainfall, but if one area has excess, another will experience drought.

The greenhouse effect interferes with, and restricts, radiation, keeping more heat in the lower atmosphere, near the ocean.

As the surface temperature of the planet warms, it will increase the amount of oceanic evaporation. This will result is more precipitation, more rain, more snow and probably more violent physics, something like a kettle of water boiling faster as the heat is turned up.

The overall precipitation will not only rise. It may also cause a snowball effect as increased water vapor in the atmosphere adds to the greenhouse effect. The eventual resultant ice age is a real condition, unless one were to believe that it, too, is a contrived hoax. Nobody is sure how fast it will procede, or which factor is most important, but procede it will. The contention is that humans don't or do cause some of it.

Has anyone thought to ask why it is so important that the public not reduce use of carbon products besides empowering the middle east? Who is endlessly funding this anti-science campaign?

What a dry and humorless post I have made.
Sorry.

Wes

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