Posted on 03/28/2006 5:52:41 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
Like WMD, people think of weaponry that has a trigger or shaped like a bomb rather than Bio-Warfare. We tend to think of oil for cars, machinery etc. while forgetting how something like a zip-lock bag to childrens toys, to parts of cars or anything that is plastic - that is actually what we are addicted to. You can purchase several different oils for your car, lawn mowers etc. that are man made and very good. Packaging with plastic is really a problem as it is wasteful and costly.....and it takes barrels of oil to produce it.
Simple.
Belief in global-warming is faith-based science.
People who believe it don't need any facts, just the love and support of their fellow global-warming zealouts.
I wonder if ABC news will pick up on this.........
It went away one day.
You telling me it didn't warm up?
It went away one day.
You telling me it didn't warm up?
I have one word for that action.
SPRINGTIME.
Well, clearly we're all going to have to stop drinking water and breathing, since that increases water vapor in the atmosphere.
The short answer is that in irrigation (the part of it the works and isn't wasted) the water soaks into the ground and some of it is taken up by plants whereas over large open bodies of water there's nothing to slow it down.
Example: two thirds of the precipitation that falls east of the Rockies, comes from the Gulf of Mexico. It's a little over 66%.
Irrigation water evaporation on the other hand, has yet to reach the tenth of one percent range. It has about as much impact as an extra quart of water going over Niagara Falls.
We can even estimate the temperature of the water being used, in general, for irrigation purposes, as well as how much of it is sprayed and so forth, and it turns into a simple mathematical exercise.
It is definitely not as simple as that. You don't take into account the ambient air temperature, the dew point (which effects how much can be evaporated), how much of it is absorbed by the soil, winds, which can change the whole equation, the amount of insolation (sunlight) and dozens of other factors it would take too long to list.
If weather/climate research were as simple as you make it our to be, we'd already have our forecast for Easter 2020.
*Or maybe it's just me "sigh".
Concerning "soaking into the ground", it does that ~ INITIALLY ~ and then it is sucked up by the plants. Much of it evaporates directly ~ that's why irrigation leaves behind salt damaged land.
I'm sorry, but none of that has anything to do with the factors I mentioned in my post.
First of all, irrigation has been taking place on a long term basis and it's effects are barely measureable on today's equipment. As I mentioned, we're talking about a factor that amounts to hundredths of one percent, at best. Micro-trivia! What is your point?
*Please excuse me for guessing, but this wouldn't happen to be your your day off, would it?
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That's way back when rice cultivation spread throughout China and East Asia.
Lightweight plastic pipe, cheap pumps, and other pieces of technology have allowed for a vast expansion of irrigation over the past 50 years.
Several issues back a Brit researcher saw his research into the matter of a coming Ice Age Glaciation published in Scientific American. It is his thesis that we are actually in the cool-down phase leading to widespread glaciation BUT widespread agriculture has served to keep the Earth warm. He pointed to a drop in global temperatures coincident with the great die-off of American Indians (1500-1600), and the consequent rise in global temperatures coincident with European/African re-settlement of the Americas.
I have since replaced its batteries and it's now working fine now ...whoaaa!....let me turn it down here.
There might be a coherent thought in what you posted, but I sure don't have time to search for it.
Ocean water absorbs SO MUCH of the Sun's heat for this planet, otherwise we'd be in trouble. Great paper.
Luckily, the 'chance to debate' this theory has not been declared 'over' by Al Gore.
Yes, the same big government that is running France to the stops will defend the earth against the big bad CO2. Get popcorn and watch the show.
Yup, the ocean absorbs lots and lots of heat.
LOL!! You missed adding an 'incorrect' about my Hillary statement!!!! Jeeeez Louieezzzzee!!
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