Re: [OT] musing on global warming

"Matt Silberstein" <RemoveThisPrefixmatts2nospam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
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I have been doing some thinking about global warming lately (as,
likely, have many of us). In particular I was thinking about the
"Global Warming causes more/larger hurricanes" claim. My first thought
was that more heating, more storms, particularly since those storms
carry the heat from the equator towards the poles. Then I read that
the Poles were heating faster than the equator. So that reverses the
equation. Then I read something regarding evaporation and sheer winds.
I realized that it was not simply heating that caused storms, it was
heat leaving the ocean. Clearly (for a value of clear that may not
include correct) we should get more/stronger storms with the oceans
closer to boiling *no matter* if the temp difference with the poles
was decreasing. But what about sheer winds? How will warming affect
them? More winds to disrupt storm formation or less to allow them to
form? Well, after all that I concluded that this is why actual
scientists use numeric models and quantify all those claims above.

Find what relevance to t.o that you want in the above.

It's relevant in that the same people who argue against evolution use
similar arguments against global warming, namely that climate scientists are
all a bunch of eggheaded pantywaist liberal moneygrubbing communists whose
main motivation is to enforce their tree-hugging anti-SUV religion on the
world.

But back to the matter at hand, I imagine, accurately or not, that the
climate is kind of like a pot of boiling water. You can turn the heat down
to the simmering point, or you can turn it up to a roiling boil. The
temperature of the water in this case stays the same so it's a flawed
analogy in that sense, but the water gets a lot more agitated when you add
more heat. So it seems likely that the atmosphere would get more agitated if
you add more heat too. Of course that sounds suspiciously like the "And what
ALSO floats on water?" test for witches, but maybe there's a little more
science to it.

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