But saturated air at 32 degrees F holds the same amount of moisture at a given pressure, every time.
If it were warm it would rain. When it is cold, it snows.
Let's get Old School, Baby!... Psychrometric Charts!
Posted on 02/12/2010 4:33:36 AM PST by governsleastgovernsbest
By now, we're all familiar with the global warmists attempt to explain away the record-breaking mid-Atlantic blizzards. Take this, for example, from the New York Times [emphasis added]:
[snip]
So more snow fell from Philly to DC because the temperatures were warmer than normal during the blizzards? That got me wondering: just what were the temperatures in DC on the snow days, and how do they compare to the norm? And guess what?
(Excerpt) Read more at newsbusters.org ...
But does Mark share?
Oh you cruel and insensitive conservative bastards!
How dare you take away these people’s sole means of “mattering” in this world!
How dare you rip out their reason to feel good about themselves for being so “caring” and “enlightened”!
But saturated air at 32 degrees F holds the same amount of moisture at a given pressure, every time.
If it were warm it would rain. When it is cold, it snows.
Let's get Old School, Baby!... Psychrometric Charts!
Global warming must be stopped.
If Global Warming continues to grind on in it’s inexorable path, they’ll have to schedule snowplows to clear the streets before the Fourth of July parades.
Warm air does hold more moisture. As a result, it does not precipitate as much.
According to Mastercard, the way to "help Dad be a better man" is to make sure he follows all the greenie rules...
Don't you want Dad to be a better man?
Using the liberals logic, global warming caused the ice ages.
BAHAHHAHHAHA
Here's the Google search results for: drought "global warming"
It returns 2,180,000 results and here's a sampling of the titles just from the 1st page:
"Global warming to cause massive drought over next 100 years, say climatologists"
"Drought's Growing Reach: NCAR Study Points to Global Warming as ..."So, Global Warming Theory is proven when the air has less moisture"Global warming future: Drought, wildfire, floods, pestilence ..."
"Global warming future: Drought, wildfire, floods, pestilence ..."
"Global warming 37 percent to blame for droughts"
Global Warming is the only "proven" scientific theory established by a NO FAIL test.
***Like I said before, it still has to be cold enough to snow.***
Yep.
AND it needs to be cold enough HIGH enough to form SNOW rather than ICE.
(GW loons have been saying its the UPPER atmosphere that is heating from too much CO2).
I’m looking out my window in Fort Worth at a FOOT of SNOW. We always get ICE because that can form lower in the atmosphere. Nice change.
the think second law of thermodynamics says no...
Close. Obama just recast the approval polls as reflecting "amorphous moodiness".
They are Amorphous Moodiness Polls now.
There desperate, and they look foolish. I think next stop for these people is the insane asylum.
The argument by the left is stupid.
However, the general point isn’t contradicted by snow. The point is that if your air is warmer, it can hold more moisture. If that warm air then hits a cold air mass, as the air cools, it will release it’s moisture. If the cold air mass is cold enough, that moisture will freeze before hitting the earth, and we will have a storm.
So it is true that the warmer the upper air is, the more snow we can get. A really strong storm has warmer air, more circulation, and can suck more moisture off the oceans.
Usually, if the storm is that strong, it brings so much warm air in that the temperature goes up too much, and we get rain. We are often on the snow/rain line.
This year it has been so cold that the warm air wasn’t enough, and we got snow. and more snow. I would note that the snow/rain line for Tuesday’s storm was just south of DC, so it’s not like the same weather patterns aren’t around, it’s just the snow/rain line is further south because we are colder this year.
Of course, part of why we are colder is because the west coast is warmer (or not because, maybe in the same manner that), the cold air slipped down and to the east.
It is likely that if the temperature of the earth did increase by a couple of degrees, that there could be more violent storms (although not really because the warmer air would carry additional moisture, but because the warmer it is, since “cold” is fixed at 0 degrees kelvin, the greater temperature differentials can occur, meaning more violent weather).
The entire “global warming” scare is more politically motivated than motivated by any science. It’s no coincidence that Al Gore has been pushing it, or that the Democrats in Congress are all acting on it. There’s lots of money and political capital to be made out of it.
: )
BTW I saw picture from the Star Telegram showing a Model A or something DRIVING ACROSS THE TOTALLY FROZEN LAKE WORTH...think about that.
It’s the law.
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Some people do not believe that laws apply to them.
I read on the AP that Obama's polls are down just because the economy is not doing very well. Has nothing at all to do with him. Oh no!
[According to Dalton’s LAW of gasses air has no capacity to “hold” water. Therefore the entire argument made in the NY Times...water caused by the heat/energy. Air has no ability to hold water at any time or at any temperature. It’s the law.]
I believe it has been established that the entire left is not subject to “the law”
It’s Bush’s fault!
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